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assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

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

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

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

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

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

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

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

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

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...

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

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...