YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Nine Short Stories of J D Salinger
Essays 751 - 780
in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...
new life are fearful of such change, choosing to live the life they are accustomed to instead. Eveline is a woman who has dreams a...
In five pages this paper discusses human nature and the conflict that exists between social expectations and human needs within th...
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of perspective, setting, tone, style, and symbolism. Seven sources are cited ...
Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...
The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...
Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...
formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...
close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...
of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation o...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
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...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...
is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...
no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...