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being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

conservative minister and professor teaching at the Dallas Seminary. He recalls that he was very complacent in his beliefs. "The G...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

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 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 six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

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

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

"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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

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 Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

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...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...