YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories of Margaret Atwood
Essays 211 - 240
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
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 ...
accompanied the commencement of an enterprise who you have regarded with such evil forebodings" (Shelley, 1999, p. 25). He is in P...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...
on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...
blue hotel against the "dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska," so that the comparison of the two makes Nebraska appear to be a "g...
shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...
driver, and at last he made it to the front in Europe during the height of World War I (Roth, 450). He was seriously wounded in It...
This paper addresses Gaines' story as the events that unfold develop the character of the protagonist, James. This seven page pap...
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...
It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...
comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...
In three pages Daru's dilemma and choice to allow the Arab prisoner to select his own destiny are questioned. There are no other ...
A review of short stories which originated in various regions of Africa. This paper has five pages and one source in the bibliog...
The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...
In seven pages this paper discusses parent and child conflicts and how they are portrayed in 'The Sky is Gray' by Ernest Gaines, '...
In five pages this paper examines how the conflict between appearances and reality is depicted in the short stories 'The Minister'...
In five pages this paper analyzes This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen in a consideration of moral complacency in the short ...
In five pages the cultural attitudes reflected in John McMurtry's 'Kill'em, Crush ‘em, Eat ‘em Raw' and Roland Barthes...