YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories by William Faulkner Compared
Essays 1051 - 1080
his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...
and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...
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...
workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...
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,...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
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 ...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
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...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
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...
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...
clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...