YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories by William Faulkner Compared
Essays 1021 - 1050
shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...
out and the family, along with their dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only...
view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...
the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...
The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...
pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...
In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...
really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...
"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...
back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...
he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...