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Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

Women, Heart Disease, and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

Story of the Religious Leader Joshua

learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...

Two Short Stories: “He” and “The Loons”

different we have no possible common ground, we can also justify destroying them. This is why we never consider enemy combatants a...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Analysis of Symbolism in the Short Story 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

Depiction of Women in 2 Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

Story of an Apology

dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...

Charles Wright's Short Story 'A New Day'

such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...

Mishima's Stories Patriotism and Death in Midsummer

The honour code which decrees that those who bring shame on the community must remove themselves from it was the ethical system wh...

Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Colonial Peru and the Short Story 'Rosa's Day'

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

3 Fictional Stories Analyzed

reflecting the exact opposite of those ruled by determinism. Having adequately grasped the meaning behind Jewetts perspectives, i...

Raymond Carver's Short Stories and Relationships

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, 'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, and Freedoms

and as such women did not have these freedoms at the time the Declaration of Independence was written. Interestingly enough, tod...

'Song' by Allen Ginsberg, 'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, and Love

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

South Africa Setting for a Fictional Story

some people spend their whole lives asserting that innate desire; it is this quest for improved social, economic, political and cu...

Sam Walton Made in America, My Story Reviewed

annual sales of over $44 billion coming from the sales to over 40 million shoppers in over 1,750 stores (Economist, 1992). Before ...

Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

Analysis of Stories Featured in The Burning Plain by Rulfo

flood. While many might examine such as story and wonder why anyone would go to such extremes over a dead cow, this...

Comparison of 3 Stories and Passion v. Reason

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...

Lack of Conclusion in Short Story Mysteries by V. Nabokov and M. Atwood

ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...

Working Against the Odds The Story of Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

originated within themselves. In present-day language, some would have been considered "nerds," because they did not necessarily e...

'It Takes a Village' in Toni Cade Bambara's Short Story 'The Lesson'

especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...

Short Story Naturalism and Realism in the Works of Theodore Dreiser and Algernon Blackwood

is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...

Timing and Disguise in 'The Odyssey' Stories

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

Masculinity Meanings in the Stories of Ernest Hemingway

and repelled by." This writer disagrees concerning the assumption that there was a "blurring" of sex roles during this period. Hem...