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has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...

do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...

This paper discusses how women are socially perceived and how gender conflict due to miscommunication and misunderstanding are exp...

him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...

Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...

dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...