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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...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Princess. Brenda is both wealthy and domineering. Certainly one sees the two as inextricable. However, if Brenda were a poor Jew, ...

in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

In five pages this undestated bookkeeper character is analyzed in terms of his importance to Carver's short story. Five sources a...

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...

In five pages a psychological analysis of John Steinbeck's short story includes the flowers' symbolism and the depression of Elisa...

extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...

In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...