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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)....

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is a horrific narrative of delusion, lies and mass murder. It is also anthologized constant...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...