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marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

knowledge that Desiree has gone to her death, even though Arnaud will have to cope with a revelation that shakes the foundations o...

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldnt answer to my conscience if I did" (OConnor). II. HULGA & THE MISFIT: RELIGIOUS FAIT...

This paper contrasts the death perspectives articulated by Dylan Thomas in the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' with t...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

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

In five pages a contrast and comparison of O'Connor's short stories 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' and 'Good Country People...