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In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

tells him of what she has promised. He tells her that she must keep her promises and that he will respect her for doing so. But, a...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

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...

Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...

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...

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

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

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

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

old-age (Pipher, 2000, ch. 1). Its certainly not what many had imagined, and among the greatest of differences is that they find ...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

In six pages this paper criticizes this purportedly qualitative study by sharply questioning the validity of this classification. ...

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

able form a friendship with the blind man over that summer. However, it is interesting to note that he only asks to feel her face ...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

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 change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...