YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 1291 - 1320
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
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...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...
a diametrically opposed stance to this view, as it seems much more likely, particularly when one considers Poes careful and meticu...
This 7 page paper gives an analysis of the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. This paper includes discussion or other articles about...
mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...
was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...
Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...