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against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...

it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

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

yet, continued Gabriel, his voice falling into a softer inflection, there are always in gathering such as this sadder thoughts tha...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...