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a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

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

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" ...

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

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...

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 Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

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

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

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...

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

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...

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

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...