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has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...

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...

educated, for most people are in the future, and they just live a life that is filled with criminal activity. It is the norm and t...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

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...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

(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 ...

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...

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...