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by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

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...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

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...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

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...

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...