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son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...

makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...

constantly to the topic of the beautiful heifer that Uwe has purchased as a present for his bride. The cow cannot be separated fro...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

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...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

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

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...

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

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...

does not temper "love with wrath" (Stumb, 19999). Julian is quoted as having said, that she could see "no sort of anger in God, ho...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

reveal the ages old cobblestones beneath. I am always amazed that the cobblestones, which are obviously older than the concrete ne...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...