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North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

away they show the secretary and another partner who has arrived on the scene a warrant to search Blaines office and will be seen ...

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

so much time to be bored. Jewett writes: "Sylvia had all the time there was, and very little use to make of it" (759). Sylvia wa...

had a life of one failure after another and no parental figure to ease the blow. His mother had gotten sick and died and Adolph wa...

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

that her mother "had never really had a friend of her own before" and it is clear that the friendship means a great deal to both w...

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

seem to be too concerned with how the situation turned out; this, as I see now, was because he had a queue of others just waiting ...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...