YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Story by John Cheever
Essays 121 - 150
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which suburban conformity are condemned are examined in a character analysis of Franc...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...
A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...
In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...
a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...