YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Story by John Cheever
Essays 121 - 150
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...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
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...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
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...
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...
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...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...
quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...