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a diametrically opposed stance to this view, as it seems much more likely, particularly when one considers Poes careful and meticu...

a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...

that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

In five pages this essay examines a Time magazine article on the short life and murder of Bill Cosby's only son Ennis....

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

society and no one wants to talk about it, much less have it in the backyard. The solution here is to offer the clinic as a direct...

This 4 page paper gives an analysis of the story The Zebra Storyteller. This paper includes both lateral and vertical analysis as ...

up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is smal...

and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...

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 ...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

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...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

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...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

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...

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...

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...