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lends variety to a work that otherwise might become monotonous. But in short stories, only one point of view is generally used, a...

In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...

In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

himself during this period (Ross, 1999). He began writing soon after his arrival in Canada, and won the "Canadian Fiction Magazin...

at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...