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Essays 361 - 390
In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...
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...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
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...
In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
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...
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...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...
waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...