YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Five Short Stories an Analysis
Essays 301 - 330
This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...
The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...
This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...
quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...
one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...
This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
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...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...
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 ...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....
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 ...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...