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of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

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,...

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...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

This 6 page paper is an analysis of the short story by Camus called The Guest. This paper gives a summary of the story as well as ...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...