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earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

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

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...

The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...

This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...

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

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

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

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

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...