SEARCH RESULTS

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

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...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

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

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

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

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

In five pages this paper compares the death of the author's mother to the natural disaster of wildlife refuge flooding. There is ...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

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

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...

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...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

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