YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The 1995 Short Story Winner
Essays 331 - 360
is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...
a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...
journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...
woman who is significant, but rather how she makes the male character feel. This is particularly true of young women, who almost f...
other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...
she is known for. This particular compilation of stories was written prior to her incredible fame and would thus indicate that she...
this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...
way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...
By the time we reach mid story, and the speech of Stella-Rondo, we have suspended disbelief, as we might in good theater, and bel...
In five pages this paper examines the life of William Sydney Porter, a famous American writer of short stories who became more com...
This paper analyzes Fitzgerald's short story, The Rich Boy in terms of the protagonist's behavior and refusal to grow up. This si...
In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...
In 5 pages this paper argues that analyzing the short stories of Flannery O'Connor from sociological as well as Catholic religious...
In five pages four feminist short stories by Alice Munro, Susan Minot, Grace Pale, and Nadine Gordimer are thematically compared ...
In seven pages the assessments of 3 critics are applied to the Richard Wright short stories 'The Man Who Lived Underground,' 'Long...
In five pages this paper discusses how social realities are depicted in the themes and characters of Richard Wright's short storie...
In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...
In a paper consisting of 7 pages a short story about a teenage girl who seeks to feel her own heart is presented and the film she ...
This paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, Babylon Revisited and addresses the themes of characterization and addiction. Th...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages two short stories featured in an instructional text on writing are contrasted and compared. Ther...
This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...
tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...
rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...
not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...