YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Story by John Cheever
Essays 631 - 660
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
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...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
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. ...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
In seven pages this paper considers the Gothic characteristics of Mary Shelley's writings in an analysis of short stories 'Transfo...
In five pages these short stories are analyzed in a contrasting and comparison of spousal relationships. There are no other sourc...
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,...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
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 ...
Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...
Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...
In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...