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OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...

Joan Didions short story "On Going Home" is a story that describes Didions childhood home and the influences that she...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

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In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...