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with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...

barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...

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...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

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 ...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...

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...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

In five pages this paper presents a short story analysis of the Tessie Hutchinson character and the setting with the importance of...

In 5 pages the theme of maturation as it is featured in these two short stories is compared. There are no other sources listed....

This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...

In eight pages Hispanics are examined within the context of their high rates of dropping out of high school with sociocultural and...

In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...

structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...

In five pages this paper discusses Hemingway's life and then examines how heroes are interpreted in the novel The Sun Also Rises a...

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...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist planned to die with dignity in Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short story. There...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

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