YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The 1995 Short Story Winner
Essays 1171 - 1200
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...
camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...
many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...
man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...
is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...
he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...
which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...
a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...
her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...
just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...
her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...
(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...
clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...