YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories by William Faulkner Compared
Essays 781 - 810
In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...
This paper discusses how women are socially perceived and how gender conflict due to miscommunication and misunderstanding are exp...
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...
to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...
was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...
In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...
Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...
him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...
do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...
This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...
In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...
and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...
is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...
have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...
for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...
country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...
by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...
trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...
by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...
(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...
bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...
Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...
turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...