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flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...

long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

major role in shaping our behavior, temperament, and intelligence" (PBS). While nature plays important roles in ones life, the env...

In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...

This 3 page paper discusses the short story “A Fifty-Year Old Man” by Shusaku Endo and answers questions about it. Bibliography li...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...