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In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
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...
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 ...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
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 ...
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...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
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 how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...
In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....
In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...
conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...
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 nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...