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

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

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

that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...

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

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

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

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...

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

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

helplessness. Growing up as the child of an alcoholic parent creates a great deal of pressure to handle home front issues at a ve...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of perspective, setting, tone, style, and symbolism. Seven sources are cited ...

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...