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above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...

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...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

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

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

In five pages the telling of this short story and the messages contained within are analyzed. One source is listed in the bibliog...

In five pages this report discusses how Hemingway's short story presentations are typically merely 'the tip of the iceberg' with t...

In five pages this paper evaluates the luck of Paul, the protagonist in this short story by D.H. Lawrence. Six sources are cited ...

This paper compare these James Joyce and John Updike short stories in an analytical essay consisting of five apges. There are no ...

In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the author's use of symbolic images. There are two other sources cited in...

The narrator's reliability in each of these short stories is analyzed in a paper that consists of five pages. There are no other ...

In five pages this paper discusses the theme of evil within the context of this short story by Shirley Jackson. There are no othe...

In six pages this essay presents a modernist interpretation of this short story by Katherine Mansfield. Three sources are cited i...

or not he should warn the de Spains illustrate the strength of family loyalty or as Faulkner calls it "the old fierce pull of bloo...

Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...

In five pages this paper analyzes Stephen King's short story in terms of how the author employs the setting of rural Maine. There...