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barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...

is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...

In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...

a grandfather is made clear as soon as Robert ushers Mr. Winfield into the car. Wiinfields granddaughter, Sheila, greets him. With...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

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

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...

reader/writer felt to be intriguing and important. The student requesting this essay may feel differently but the story of his fat...

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

the dance, he meets a woman named Lotte with whom he has an instant rapport. During this part of the novel, Werther expresses his ...

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...

it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

out of the ordinary that they are shocking (Updike). (And yes, there really is an A&P-the abbreviation is short for the Great Atla...

out and the family, along with their dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only...