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him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

he created fake notes, fake voicemails, fake faxes, even a fake Web site - whatever it took to deceive his editors, not to mention...

He replied that he had "rather lost the habit of noting" his feelings and, therefore, "hardly knew what to answer" (Camus 80). He ...

are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...

shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes clear t...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra actio...

protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

people to some extent. In the beginning he states that it is not a very great painting, and while he is not ashamed of it, he hide...

a garden. Without end or limit, without borders and fences, in noises and rustling, golden in the sun, pale green in the shade, a...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...

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

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

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

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...