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The Necklace

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

The Plays Sure Thing and Trifles and What They Say about Women’s Issues

its difficult to find true love, and that women are sometimes willing to take a chance unless they have a substantial chance of be...

Mature Style of William Faulkner

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

Cheever's "The Country Husband"

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

Stephen Crane's "Open Boat" and setting

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

A Rose for Emily/Use of Narration

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

Raymond Carver and His Stories

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

'The Curse' by Andre Dubus

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

14th Century Theologian and Mystic Julian of Norwich

does not temper "love with wrath" (Stumb, 19999). Julian is quoted as having said, that she could see "no sort of anger in God, ho...

Imagery and Plot Structure of 'Araby' by James Joyce

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...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

Synopsis of 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

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" ...

Science and its Power in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

The Narrator's Role in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

'The Dead' and James Joyce's Attack on Ireland

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

Twenty Global Economy Articles Summarized

chief strategist with High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y.: "As terrible as the past week has been, nothing has changed in t...

Comparative Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat' and 'The Tell Tale Heart'

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

'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...

Telling Stories about Vietnam

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

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...

Grace in “Revelation”

ways that any change would be impossible for her. But when Mary Grace whispers her venomous insult, the message strikes home and R...

SWOT of Esprit

2008 (Karr, 2008). The wholesale sales accounted for more than 55 percent of revenues (Karr, 2008). Wholesale activities in German...

Issues in African History

peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...

Steinbeck’s Concepts of Mercy and Justice

his goods will be forfeit as well. Having already said in court that he wants only his "bond," Portia has him on the ropes when he...

Travelled,gladly beyond by e.e. cummings

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Tim O’Brien’s Ambush

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...