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fiction has become a cardinal rule, with the demand being even more stringent in the short story due to its compressed form. Rese...
attracts someone she doesnt anticipate -- an considerably older man named Arnold Friend. Vaguely sinister from the beginning, Arno...
In five pages the tone and style of these short stories are compared in terms of similarities and differences. There are no other...
In four pages this paper analyzes the D.H. Lawrence short story in terms of determining the young doctor's motivations. There are...
In four pages Sartre's short story is examined in terms of how existentialism is contained within. There are no sources listed....
sheep-like qualities of the old maids in the store and the unattainable status of the girls he so desires, Sammy is caught between...
In one page this paper examines the short story by John Updike in an identification of its protagonist and antagonist characters. ...
and commonplace New England town for the event. It could serve as the model for a Norman Rockwell painting that could be titled "T...
In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...
can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...
was eventually decided upon as a fix-it solution soon turned into a mistake of good intention when, in 1965, Charles Scribner Jr. ...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...
no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...
according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...