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this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

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...

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

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

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

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...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

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

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...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

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...

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

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

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

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...