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Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

How Social Environment Influences Behavior in Two Short Stories

woman who has given her life to being a wife and a mother and she is simply trying to understand why her son expects to live his l...

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant: Short Story Analysis

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Family in Short Stories

Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, ...

Comparing short stories/Rivera and Chesnutt

son" (Rivera 108). The next day, he will be in charge of his brothers and sisters working in the fields. She warns him "Dont overw...

Irving and Hawthorne, Comparing 2 short stories

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

Faulkner's Rose for Emily/Time Imagery

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

The Harlem Renaissance

many perhaps who were disgruntled with the lack of freedom and the disrespect and oppression. They faced such realities in light o...

Two Short Stories: “He” and “The Loons”

different we have no possible common ground, we can also justify destroying them. This is why we never consider enemy combatants a...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Defining the West and Its History

by most, there are dilemmas that have surfaced as a result of the trek across the land. Further, it should be said that without th...

An Analysis of Moore's Short Story, How to Become a Writer

paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

'A Rose For Emily' Short Story Analysis

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

Story Significance of Joyce Carol Oates's 'Black Water'

on real events, but a fictional work inspired by the nature of the wealthy and powerful and the nature of simple young women lured...

Themes of Hemingway's Short Story Collection In Our Time

End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...

Short Stories by Shirley Jackson 'After You, My Dear Alphonse' and 'The Lottery'

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...

The Historical Significance of Black Boy by Richard Wright

they know that to rebel would be disastrous. Then, just a short while later he begins to notice, for the very first time in his...

Romanticism in Two Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

Shocking Short Story 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...

Short Story Characters in Gilman, Poe, and Bierce

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

Successful Short Story Characteristics

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

Analysis of Flannery O'Connor's Short Story 'Good Country People'

cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...

'Sonny's Blues' A Short Story by James Baldwin

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

Analyzing Guy de Maupassant's Short Story 'The Necklace'

she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...

Response to Outside Influence in Two Short Stories

of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...

Chinua Achebe/Dead Men's Path

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

A Short Story 'Alligators 1, Navy 0'

still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...