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marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

in men. Her daughter had died in childhood and with her one son she had no articulate relations. On the night when she died she wa...

grandson. It is clear that she has done this many times before. At some point in the past, several years ago at least, the boy acc...

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

In three pages Flannery O'Connor's story is examined with the consideration of a certain passage that utilizes language and active...

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

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

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...

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

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

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

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

This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

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

In five pages Gary Soto's humorous memoir about his difficult life experiences without bitterness is the focus of this essay. One...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

(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...

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

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...