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It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...