YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The 1995 Short Story Winner
Essays 451 - 480
true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...
cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...
speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....
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...
her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...
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...
the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...
the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...
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...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...
Don DeLillo are both stories about observation, but they are completely different, and the difference is unsettling for people who...
woman who has given her life to being a wife and a mother and she is simply trying to understand why her son expects to live his l...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
son" (Rivera 108). The next day, he will be in charge of his brothers and sisters working in the fields. She warns him "Dont overw...
attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...
is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...
mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...
that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...