YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Story by John Cheever
Essays 691 - 720
telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...
has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...
Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...
end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...
a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...
are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...
judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...
Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...
A 4 page aper which discusses Mark Twain’s short story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Bibliography lists 4 source...
is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...
it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...
is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...
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...
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...
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...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...