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the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...

knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th annivers...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, ...

sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...

is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...