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Essays 151 - 180
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...
Macomber." Review of the Binaries Argument One way that Hemmingway explored the question...
out and the family, along with their dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the short story called The Country Husband. This paper includes issues of trying to escape ...
This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
along the details of a high-profile news story that illustrates the person has discovered something he did not previously know. T...
waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...