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an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...

story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...

Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...