YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Six Short Stories Summary and Analyses
Essays 211 - 240
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...
rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...
which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...
this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...
Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...
BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...
story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...