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he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

are the American couple and they are simply trying to get in an adventure before Mark dies. They have always wanted to see Ireland...

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

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

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

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

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...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

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

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

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...

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...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

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...

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...