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he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...

and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...

a grandfather is made clear as soon as Robert ushers Mr. Winfield into the car. Wiinfields granddaughter, Sheila, greets him. With...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...

many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...

end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...

A 4 page aper which discusses Mark Twain’s short story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Bibliography lists 4 source...

is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...

it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...