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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 ...

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...

environment, which is rare anymore, is often a very dangerous environment that can threaten ones life. This makes the reader under...

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

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...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...

is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with amb...

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...