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it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...

inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...

stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...

has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldnt answer to my conscience if I did" (OConnor). II. HULGA & THE MISFIT: RELIGIOUS FAIT...

man who is old, perhaps given up on life, and essentially a man who spends his days watching television and checking the mail. Wit...

the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra actio...

protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

a garden. Without end or limit, without borders and fences, in noises and rustling, golden in the sun, pale green in the shade, a...

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...