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his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

of the Old South, which is where she bases her identity. She sees the antebellum era and everything about the Southern values in t...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

and be fed if he wants to work the property despite having one arm. In present day society there is really no way that a single wi...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

the world during the time when Revelation was written. In a serious attempt to educate her readership to the evils forever lurkin...

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

In three pages these issues are considered within the context of characters the Misfit and the grandmother. There are three bibli...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...