YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Symbolism and Theme in the Short Stories of Flannery OConnor
Essays 391 - 420
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...
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...
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...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
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...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
In five pages this essay examines the Young Captain and Leggatt's relationship in The Secret Sharer and the growth symbolism that ...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
In seven pages this paper discusses the use of symbolism in this text....
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
In three pages this novel first published in 1937 is analyzed regarding the author's use of symbolism....
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
Appreciating the goodness of life in all senses -- mentally, physically, spiritually -- is what Taoism strives to achieve. These ...