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to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...
In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...
In seven pages interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' short story are presented by a comparative analy...
In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...
In a paper consisting of four pages character conflicts as they exist in this short story are considered and through an examinatio...
In four pages the ways in which conflict functions in these short stories are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in ...
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
In five pages this research paper analyzes Welty's popular short story with the emphasis upon family eccentricities and the post m...
son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...
In seven pages this short story by Washington Irving is critically analyzed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....
This paper discusses how American Romanticism is represented in 'Rip Van Winkle,' a short story by Washington Irving in three page...
brother. This is where Baldwin sets up another beautiful metaphor: the ice. "A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of women's desires and their positioning in the aristocratic patriarchy of Pue...
This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...