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the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

In a paper consisting of four pages these writings are compared in terms of symbolism and the meanings of these powerful symbols i...

In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

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

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...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

This paper consisting of five pages examines the symbolism of trees in terms of the family's fate in this famous Flannery O'Connor...

In five pages this paper examines how the ending is foreshadowed throughout various events in the short story with its symbolism a...

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

This 3 page paper analyzes Toni Cade Bambara's short story The Lesson, which deals with a group of young children learning first h...

In four pages this short story from Distant View of a Minaret is analyzed in terms of the call's symbolism. There is 1 source cit...

In five pages this paper examines interpersonal communication within the contexts of protagonists Bigger Thomas in Native Son and ...

fiction has become a cardinal rule, with the demand being even more stringent in the short story due to its compressed form. Rese...

In five pages this paper examines how humiliation is used as a theme in Ibsen's play and Hawthorne's novel. Two sources are cited...

In eight pages this paper examines the evil that manifests itself in the predatory characters of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarle...

In five pages this paper examines the symbolism, theme, and imagery featured in John Steinbeck's short story 'The Chrysanthemums.'...

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...