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pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

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...

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...