YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 421 - 450
books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
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...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this 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,...
close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...
extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...
In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...
is assumed that the narrator is offering a truthful representation, but the readers are expected to often "read between the lines"...
The writer analyzes the short story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes, and argues that it is representative of his style. The paper is f...
Gabriel learns that the song brought to Grettas mind a recollection of a young man from her home county. Pressing her further, he ...
Such an endeavor may provide one with an interpretation of events in the story that would be far different from one that does not ...
In five pages this paper examines the life of William Sydney Porter, a famous American writer of short stories who became more com...
In five pages this short story by Eudora Welty is analyzed from a sociological perspective. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...