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In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

In three pages Raymond Carver's last short story is analyzed in terms of culture and setting. There are no other sources cited....

In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...

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

what dull or even dim-witted character," as from the start, he is passive and seemingly uncaring (Griem 95). It is clear that he c...

fit. In this respect man is of no importance in the face of the sheer power of nature as it is represented by the sea. Similarit...

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 ...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

reader/writer felt to be intriguing and important. The student requesting this essay may feel differently but the story of his fat...

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

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...

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

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

Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...

likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

appropriate, but notes that there are no pharmaceutical treatments available specifically for short term memory loss. The c...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...