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'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

Sidonie Colette's 'The Hand'

hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time...

Analyzing 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is clear in this story that the greed of the Washingtons is out-of-control. Mr. Washington doesnt want anyone to find out abou...

Sam in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Themes of Nature and Death in Simone Schwarz Bart's The Bridge of Beyond and Gabrielle Roy's The Road Past Altamont

environment, which is rare anymore, is often a very dangerous environment that can threaten ones life. This makes the reader under...

Theme for English By Langston Hughes

This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...

American Values Found Within The Scarlet Letter

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...

'Fifty Grand,' 'The Natural History of the Dead,' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

Literary Comarison of John Cheever's Stories 'The Housebreaker of Shady Hill' and 'The Worm in the Apple'

modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...

Short Stories of Mark Twain, Heaven and Hell, Good and Bad

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

Isolation Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell

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

Flannery O'Connor's 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' and Themes of Class and Money

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

2 Short Stories, Identity

This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...

"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

About "Macbeth"

is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with amb...

Love and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

A Review of Dancing at Lughnasa

Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...

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...