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D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner' and the Character of Paul

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

Violence in 'How to Tell a True War Story' by Tim O'Brien and 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

Characters in Open Secrets by Alice Munro

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

Commentary on Virginia Woolf's 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe and Dramatic Irony

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

Music and Brotherly Love in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

Feminist Approach to 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Gender Controls

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

Literary Works and Socioeconomics

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

Masculine Identity in Literature Questions Answered

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

Point of View in 'Araby' by James Joyce

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...

Psychoanalysis Reading of 'The Lost Titian' by Christina Rossetti

do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Washington Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle'

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...

'Suffer the Little Children' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...

Analyzing 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

Literary Functioning of Symbolism and Setting

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil' and Symbolism

was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....

Social Attitudes and Gender Communication in 'he Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

This paper discusses how women are socially perceived and how gender conflict due to miscommunication and misunderstanding are exp...

A Synthesis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories' The Birth-Mark', 'Lady Eleanore's Mantle,' 'The Minister's Black Veil,' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Roles of Tradition and Myth

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

Gothic Fascination of Edgar Allan Poe

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka and Symbolism

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher,' Art and Literature

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

Flannery O'Connor and Comedy

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

'The Black Cat' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor Compared

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...