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of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
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...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...
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 five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...