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Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

him and who has lawful access to the mother" (Oedipal trajectory/Oedipal complex, 2004). As the boy develops he begins to realize ...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

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

makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...

a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...

clerk in the store, he has no respect for his boss or the people who use his services. At the same time,...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

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...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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)....

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

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...