YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories by Melissa A Hardy
Essays 181 - 210
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
woman who is significant, but rather how she makes the male character feel. This is particularly true of young women, who almost f...
other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...
this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...
is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...
ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...
journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...
a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...
especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...
than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...
no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...
who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...
great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...