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an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

out of the ordinary that they are shocking (Updike). (And yes, there really is an A&P-the abbreviation is short for the Great Atla...

out and the family, along with their dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only...

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...

reader/writer felt to be intriguing and important. The student requesting this essay may feel differently but the story of his fat...

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

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...

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...

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...

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

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)....

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...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...