YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Response to Outside Influence in Two Short Stories
Essays 661 - 690
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...
he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...
is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...
this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...
Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...
her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...
(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...
he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...
and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...
are the American couple and they are simply trying to get in an adventure before Mark dies. They have always wanted to see Ireland...
which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...
a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...
her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...
just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...
her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...
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...
could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...
to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...
her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...