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(in the context of marriage), religion cannot be sexual. "Sexuality may be spiritual, but spirituality may not be sexual, it seems...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

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...

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

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

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

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...

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

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

transport. Moreover, it is a lesser threat than its plastic counterpart when reaching its final resting place in a local landfill...

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

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

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

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...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

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...

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

This discussion examines the manner in which the legend developments the character and role of Guinevere and how it changed over t...

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

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...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

Green Knight is without fear, and without any weakness it would seem. He has simply come to dare any man to show that they are rea...

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...

eating. This will help empower them to make decisions regarding their own diet. It will also placed pressure on the companies to c...