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thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...

serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

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...

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

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

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

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...