YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories by William Faulkner Compared
Essays 841 - 870
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
man who is old, perhaps given up on life, and essentially a man who spends his days watching television and checking the mail. Wit...
workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...
his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...
to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...
at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...
himself during this period (Ross, 1999). He began writing soon after his arrival in Canada, and won the "Canadian Fiction Magazin...
Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...
The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...
of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
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,...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
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 ...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...