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Essays 391 - 420
(in the context of marriage), religion cannot be sexual. "Sexuality may be spiritual, but spirituality may not be sexual, it seems...
the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...
eating. This will help empower them to make decisions regarding their own diet. It will also placed pressure on the companies to c...
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...
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...
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...
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...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...
by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
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...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
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...
In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...