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This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...