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unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

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...

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

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

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

"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...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

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

of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, and relates the importance of...

skitters to the old event with a new trigger. It does not matter that it is a new person, a new time, or a new love. The memory...