YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories Analyzed from Pickerings Anthology
Essays 1081 - 1110
by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...
(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...
Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...
she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...
But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...
bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...
is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...
have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...
is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...