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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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

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...

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...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

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...

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...

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...

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,...