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official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...