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entire identity. Similarly, Olsen sheds light upon the way intent and effort do not always produce the desired outcome, which is ...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

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...

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...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

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 ...

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...

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

In 6 pages this paper discusses how Marquez employed magical realism in his famous short story. There are 7 sources cited in the ...

In five pages the short stories featured in Cisneros' volume and the continuity that exists between them are analyzed. There are ...

sense to their world. In fact, the lack of sense serves as the only unifying factor that does, in its own twisted way, make sense....

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of women's desires and their positioning in the aristocratic patriarchy of Pue...

In 5 pages the 2 couples featured in this short story by Bessie Head are contrasted and compared regarding the marriages of each. ...

to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...

The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

In 5 pages John Updike's short story is examined in an analysis of the protagonist Sammy being caught in the middle of 2 worlds. ...

In five pages Hemingway's short story is discussed in terms of how it reflects dysfunction of family relationships. Seven sources...