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was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...