YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Six Short Stories Summary and Analyses
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talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...
otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...
until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...
took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of ...
a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...
they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...
of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...