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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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

In seven pages this essay discusses how Oedipus was able to 'see' certain things after blinding himself, from this knowledge he ga...

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...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

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,...

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

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...