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The Evil in Humanity: Jackson’s The Lottery

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

The Idea of Free Will in Mann's Mario and the Magician

Essentially, Mario kills the magician just like Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. Most explicators of this story tend to see the theme...

Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai

a world now in America, a woman is basically in the hands of the world of men. They have little or no control over their destinies...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

Common Themes in "The Purloined Letter" and Poe's Poetry

to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...

The Lottery by Jackson: Violence or Tradition?

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

Religion in “A Good Many is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

Loneliness in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

Graham Greene: "The Destructors"

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

Barn Burning by Faulkner

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

Thematic Comparison of Short Stories ‘Newton’s Gift’ by Paul J. Nahin, ‘Absolutely Inflexible’ by Robert Silverberg, and ‘Meddler’ by Philip K. Dick

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz"

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

Olsen & Tyler On Being a Parent

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

Explication of the Theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Commentary on Virginia Woolf's 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

Writing Style and Stories of Ernest Hemingway

and A Canary for One are three such pieces that are a reflection of Hemingways typical nature in that they befit the very essence ...

Analysis of Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard To Find'

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

Man v. Nature in The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

A Comparison of The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and The Yellow Wallpaper

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

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and the Topic of Abortion

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...

Evaluation of Sudden Fiction Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas

he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....

'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

Class Themes in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

Sherwood Anderson's 2 Stories in Winesburg, Ohio

Ini five pages this paper examines the theme of the grotesque that is featured in the Tandy and Hands stories in Winesburg, Ohio. ...

Leaving Home According to Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce

In five pages this essay considers the theme of leaving home as experienced by the protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's 'A Soldier's...

'Suffer the Little Children' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...

Short Story Comparisons of 'Tickets, Please' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Regret' by Kate Chopin

of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...

Themes in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find,' 'Revelation,' and 'Greenleaf' by Flannery O'Connor

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and Chaucer's Representation of Destiny and Choice

one year, what it is that women truly want from a man. For whatever reason, the Queen has chosen to give the man a choice - death...