YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates Short Story Characters
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again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...
The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...
even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...
is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...
no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
feels about herself. Mable, left to pretty much fend for herself after her fathers death, must struggle to maintain the household...
of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...