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

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

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

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...