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knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...

can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...

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

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...

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

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

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

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

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

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

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...

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

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

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...

her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...