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Short Story Analysis of Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace'

who despises her life and dreams of wealth and social status. When she is finally invited to an elegant reception, she complains ...

The Short Story 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...

Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...

The Short Story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes

The writer analyzes the short story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes, and argues that it is representative of his style. The paper is f...

Short Stories of Stephen King

In ten pages 5 short stories from the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes are analyzed in terms of the literary techniques emplo...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates' Short Story Characters

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

Edgar Allan Poe's Short Story Themes

In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...

'Desiree's Baby' Short Story Analysis

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

Louise Erdrich's 'The Leap' Feminist Short Story

In five pages this essay analyzes the short story in order to determine that it is an example of feminist literature. Three sourc...

Elementary School and Short Story Writing Instruction

itself; character(s)-the people in the story; plot -what is going on in the story or what happens; and the mood -what is the feeli...

John Steinbeck's Short Story 'The Chrysanthemums'

In five pages this paper examines the symbolism, theme, and imagery featured in John Steinbeck's short story 'The Chrysanthemums.'...

Short Story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'

on his knee, leans over him, putting his ear first higher then lower, and performs various gymnastic movements over him with a sig...

Short Stories Analyzed from Pickering's Anthology

An analysis of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, Amy Tan's Young G...

Critically Assessing Sammy in John Updike's Short Story 'A and P'

The protagonist's intelligence as perceived by the reader draws conclusions about Sammy's actions in this paper containing five pa...

2000 Study 'Gender and Short-Term Recovery from Cardiac Surgery' Reviewed

(2000) reviews several reasons that women could have more difficulty in recovery - greater age at the time of surgery; increased c...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Symbolism

play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...

Poe/Masque of the Red Death

The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

Three Essays on Realtors and Real Estate

society and no one wants to talk about it, much less have it in the backyard. The solution here is to offer the clinic as a direct...

O. Henry & Hemingway, Plus A Little on Faulkner

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...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Ernest Gaines's The Sky is Gray and Conflicts

In five pages the character conflicts developed within the story are examined. There are no other sources listed....

'Flying Home' by Ralph Ellison

Home and Other Stories. The story "Flying Home" had actually been published back in 1944, but had received at that time little cr...

U.S. Minority Literature

In a paper that contains five pages four stories written by women that are representative of the so called minority literature gen...

An Analysis of A Rose for Emily

common to the Old South. And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly ...

Gender and Narratives: Rowlandson and Jacobs

two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...

Sex and Gender According to Pampinea in Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

Sex and Gender in Decameron

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

Gender Roles and Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

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

Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?

look at her, playing the woman although she is not a woman. "She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of cranin...

The Lottery, A Classic Horror Story

anthologized works in literature and for good reason. The story is simple, follows a linear structure, and within that basic frame...