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age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

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...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

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

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

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...