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The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
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 ...
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 ...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
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...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
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...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
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...
The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...
that the fact that Maupassant was completely able to represent his characters in such a fashion as to give the reader a sense of c...
In 5 pages the 2 couples featured in this short story by Bessie Head are contrasted and compared regarding the marriages of each. ...
to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...
In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...
In 5 pages John Updike's short story is examined in an analysis of the protagonist Sammy being caught in the middle of 2 worlds. ...
In five pages Hemingway's short story is discussed in terms of how it reflects dysfunction of family relationships. Seven sources...
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of women's desires and their positioning in the aristocratic patriarchy of Pue...