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felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

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...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

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...

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...

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...

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" ...

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...

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...