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limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

being within society: "the proper excellence or virtue of man will be the habit or trained faculty that makes a man good and makes...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

In a paper consisting of four pages the corruption that had penetrated all aspectes of life during the Dark Ages are reflected in ...

been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the ...

them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of ...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

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

they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...

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

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

of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...

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 ...

him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...

In five pages this short story by Raymond Carver is examined in an analysis of the blind character Robert and what he symbolizes. ...

all, it appears that the author addresses social stratification by putting the protagonist in this particular setting. What the p...

This paper discusses how women are socially perceived and how gender conflict due to miscommunication and misunderstanding are exp...