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and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

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

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

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

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

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

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

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

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...