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Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...

he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

AS the novel develops and Edna works towards finding meaning and creative expression in her life she attempts painting which does ...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...

clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

In seven pages this paper analyzes relationships and self containment within the context of the play and Kate's 'shrewish' attribu...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...