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that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...

"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...

opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...

many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...