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that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

for example that examines 2004 statistics is based on public health experts who report that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...