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makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...

it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

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

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

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...

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 ...

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...

a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...

their own various ways of struggling for coherence, for a compelling faith, for social vision, for an ethical position, for a sens...

clerk in the store, he has no respect for his boss or the people who use his services. At the same time,...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

him and who has lawful access to the mother" (Oedipal trajectory/Oedipal complex, 2004). As the boy develops he begins to realize ...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...