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

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

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

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

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

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

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

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

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

writer, personal experience is simply the staring point, as they combine lived experience with created characters in order to pres...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...