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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...

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

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...

can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

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

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

story that provide real insight into human motivation in the space of a very few words. This paper analyses the story. Discussion ...

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

In the OConnor story, a family comprised of a husband and wife, their two children and the husbands mother take a road trip. Altho...

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...