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the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

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...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

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...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

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

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

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...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...