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it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...
dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...
back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...
even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...
again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
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...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...