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has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...