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'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

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...

Ernest Hemingway's 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' and Salvation

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...

2 Versions of 'To Build a Fire' by Jack London

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

Snake Symbolism in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

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...

Overview of Postmodern Science Fiction

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

'I Want to Know Why' by Sherwood Anderson and Symbolism

are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...

Ralph Ellison's 'Battle Royal' and James Joyce's 'Araby'

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

Worth Reading 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

John Keats and Ernest Hemingway

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

'Araby' by James Joyce and Growing Up

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

How the Angel Was Perceived by the Townspeople in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

An Analysis of Henry James' Story, The Real Thing

thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

'The Boasrding House' by James Joyce and Power

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

Ernest Hemingway's Men Without Women

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...

Characters in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...

Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation,' Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour' and Symbols

(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...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe, 'Shooting the Elephant' by George Orwell and the Human Heart

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...

'The Poor Relation's Story' by Charles Dickens and What It's Like to be an Outsider

persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon' and Irony

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

Writing and Psychoanalysis

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Descent into the Maelstrom' and 'MS Found in a Bottle'

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

Blindness in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

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...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 ...

Depiction of Women in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...