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a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

In a paper consisting of 8 pages the symbolism of blindness in this short story by Raymond Carver is discussed in terms of insight...

In five pages this paper discusses how sexuality is thematically portrayed in Tennessee Williams' short story 'Desire and the Blac...

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses the symbolic importance of stairs in Flannery O'Connor's short stories 'The Geraniu...

In five pages the similarities and differences that exist in these two short stories are contrasted and compared. Two sources are...

In two pages a biographical overview along with reviews of Joyce's short story collection Dubliners is presented. There is a bibl...

In seven pages the indifference represented by this famous short story by Stephen Crane is critiqued. Four sources are cited in t...

This collection of short stories is summarized in a paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

A 9 page essay exploring St. Paddy's at the Sundown Bar and Grill, a short story that illuminates the differences in love and sex ...

In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the creatures featured in this short story with the dog representing instinct and man symbolizing i...

In four pages this paper argues that what the narrative does not say about social prejudices reveals more than the short story say...