YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Story Analysis of Two Kinds by Amy Tan
Essays 781 - 810
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...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
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...
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 ...
her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
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,...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
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...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
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...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...
do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...