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walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

suspects of being promiscuous. She is a flirt and immediately begins flirting with the bunk hands. Curley, a highly volatile man, ...

think that schizophrenics are actually people who have split personalities, but this is not a correct description of the disease a...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

In six pages this research paper examines how Ernest Hemingway uses women as objects in his stories 'Soldier's Home' and 'Indian C...

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

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" ...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

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

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

and comparing characters will find issues of subjugation and class privilege clearly define every aspect of the lives of all the c...

and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

as Emily has illustrated, there exist a vast array of relationships that do not involve romantic love at all, but rather incorpora...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

mean and tear down a kingdom. At least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and...

magazines; these tests are things like name the capitals of the states and so on (Tan, 1989). She hopes that Jing-mei will demonst...

gotten his teaching certificate and then gone on to work for several years in education-at least enough to get noticed and promote...

a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...

yet, continued Gabriel, his voice falling into a softer inflection, there are always in gathering such as this sadder thoughts tha...

expression. He had no desire to become an actor, any more than he had to become a musician. He felt no necessity to do any of thes...

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...