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to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...

the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...

In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...

won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...

In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...

In seven pages interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' short story are presented by a comparative analy...

In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...

In five pages this paper examines how isolation is interwoven into the short stories featured in Sherwood Anderson's 1919 collecti...

in this situation. First, it should be noted that the wholesale price of gas rises and that affects retail pricing (Scherer, 200...

gotten his teaching certificate and then gone on to work for several years in education-at least enough to get noticed and promote...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...

serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...

the thesis. OConnor, Flannery. "Greenleaf" in Everything that Rises Must Converge. HarperCollins Canada, 1956, p. 24-53. As a ...

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

path reaches a dead end a new one begins. By choosing a poor elderly African-American woman as her tales protagonist, Welty is ab...

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...