YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Five Short Stories an Analysis
Essays 961 - 990
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...
like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...
sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...
her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...