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that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

essay that illustrates her story about being African American is not every African Americans story and in truth it is quite differ...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the conflicts in the short stories 'The Other Foot' and 'All Summer in a Day' by R...

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...

event and then the quiz also allowed different team members to show their varying abilities and become more participative, quieter...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

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

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

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

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

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 ...

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

(in the context of marriage), religion cannot be sexual. "Sexuality may be spiritual, but spirituality may not be sexual, it seems...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...