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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...

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

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

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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...

extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...

Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

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 five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

In six pages this research paper examines how within 'Bliss,' a short story by Katherine Mansfield, the author masterfully manipul...

In five pages this paper considers power and race as they are portrayed in the short stories 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin, 'Bat...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...