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exactly how many versions have existed throughout the ages, one would be hard pressed to find a definitive answer, inasmuch as the...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

tells him of what she has promised. He tells her that she must keep her promises and that he will respect her for doing so. But, a...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

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...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

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...

to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

tale was reduced to feeding pigs in order to survive. Augustine writes, "Where then, wast thou and how far from me? Far, indeed, w...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

spelling of swor (to swoor) and the change from "hire" to "hir." In addition, though of the usable participle "to" clarifies the ...