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Chitra Divakaruni's 'Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter'

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Examining Scenes from Sonny’s Blues

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

Abortion in 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this research essay explores the abortion debate within the context of Hemingway's short story and how important saf...

Setting in 'Old Mortality' by Katherine Anne Porter

can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...

Short Story Characters in Gilman, Poe, and Bierce

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

Character Analysis of Nadine in the Short Story 'Water Child'

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates' Short Story Characters

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

Short Stories and Rounded Character Building

The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...

Settings and Their Importance in Frankenstein

Walton, who explains the story in letters to his sister; he in turn has heard it from Frankenstein himself. This is a "framing" de...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

An Analysis of Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

Marxist View of the Misfit Character in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

'The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway and Powerlessness

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

The Character of Alida Slade in 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

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

'The Storm' by Kate Chopin and the Character of Calixta

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and the Character of Dee

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...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

The Lottery and Its Symbolism

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

Importance of the Unknown Letter Writer in 'Her Letters' by Kate Chopin

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

'Woman Hollering Creek' by Sandra Cisneros

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

Jeremy's Story An Analysis

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

Hemingway's Turning of Tables in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

Macomber." Review of the Binaries Argument One way that Hemmingway explored the question...

Mrs. Wilson's Battle in "I Want to Live!"

serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker

In this paper consisting of five pages the 'voice' Walker uses in constructing her short stories as expressed in sentence structur...