YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Five Short Stories an Analysis
Essays 1021 - 1050
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
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...
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 ...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
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,...
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...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...