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

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

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

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 ...

OConnor utilizes the central theme of Christianity is as a subtle, symbolic plot to convert her readers, whom she had envisioned a...

In eight pages this paper presents a character analysis of Rev. Dimmesdale in a focus of the adultery theme in Hawthorne's novel. ...

In seven pages this paper analyzes this short story in terms of meaning and characterization but focuses primarily upon the 2 sett...

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...

are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....

In five pages a synopsis of this story and an analysis are presented....