YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories Analyzed from Pickerings Anthology
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that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, and relates the importance of...
Jon Williams' story 'Taking Care' is analyzed in terms of the story itself as well as the character development in five pages. Th...
In two pages the author's employment of color and setting in order to emphasize the story's conflicts and represent alienation is ...
difficult time creating a cohesive worldview. Because of this the aboriginal people often had to struggle with ways in which to un...
the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...
In 4 pages the way in which Mark Twain constructed this story's melodrama is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....