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took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

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...

on the outside world. In one particular quote the reader gets an understanding of this evolution of the people, as it begins, as o...

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...

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...