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about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation o...

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...