YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Six Short Stories Summary and Analyses
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cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...
shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...
glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...
Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...
view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...
comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...
whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
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 ...
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...
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...
him and who has lawful access to the mother" (Oedipal trajectory/Oedipal complex, 2004). As the boy develops he begins to realize ...