YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Richard Wright and 4 Short Stories
Essays 481 - 510
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...
barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...
Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...
of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
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...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
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 ...
her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...
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,...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
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...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...