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Essays 421 - 450
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...
conservative minister and professor teaching at the Dallas Seminary. He recalls that he was very complacent in his beliefs. "The G...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...
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...
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...
representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...
contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
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...
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...
"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...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...