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she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

men in blankets who would sexually use little boys as prostitutes. The boys would receive money and so they would be able to eat a...

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

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...

One). At the time, Lalo Schifrin was slated to compose the score for Mark Rydells film The Reivers with Steve McQueen, but his wor...

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...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

is described as apelike and lowered its claws, and became a pliant beast (Colette, 197)" (Johnny Boy). This critic indicates that ...

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

customer starts giving him hell" (Updike). The initial impression of Sammy is one of adolescence as the presence of the girls in t...

chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

those demons in his closet that he thought securely battened down. His mother will not stop with the accusations and insinuations ...

great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...

In six pages the stories 'Crazy Sunday' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin' by Tenness...

or not he should warn the de Spains illustrate the strength of family loyalty or as Faulkner calls it "the old fierce pull of bloo...

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...

lends variety to a work that otherwise might become monotonous. But in short stories, only one point of view is generally used, a...