YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner
Essays 481 - 510
beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...
In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...
This 3 page paper discusses the short story “A Fifty-Year Old Man” by Shusaku Endo and answers questions about it. Bibliography li...
and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...
women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...
In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...
terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...
major role in shaping our behavior, temperament, and intelligence" (PBS). While nature plays important roles in ones life, the env...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...
story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...
legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...
was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...