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sheep-like qualities of the old maids in the store and the unattainable status of the girls he so desires, Sammy is caught between...

In one page this paper examines the short story by John Updike in an identification of its protagonist and antagonist characters. ...

and commonplace New England town for the event. It could serve as the model for a Norman Rockwell painting that could be titled "T...

In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...

In five pages an analysis of this short story by R.K. Narayan is presented. There are 6 sources cited in the bibliography....

can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...

two women that reveals a great deal about their lives while simultaneously showing the effect of their fathers tyranny through the...

In four pages this paper analyzes the D.H. Lawrence short story in terms of determining the young doctor's motivations. There are...

In four pages Sartre's short story is examined in terms of how existentialism is contained within. There are no sources listed....

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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