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and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...

was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...

have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...

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

reader/writer felt to be intriguing and important. The student requesting this essay may feel differently but the story of his fat...

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...