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careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...

woman who has given her life to being a wife and a mother and she is simply trying to understand why her son expects to live his l...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

son" (Rivera 108). The next day, he will be in charge of his brothers and sisters working in the fields. She warns him "Dont overw...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

different we have no possible common ground, we can also justify destroying them. This is why we never consider enemy combatants a...

Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, ...

In five pages this paper assesses the impact of the winter woods' setting on 'Doe Season,' a 1985 short story by David Michael Kap...

Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...

not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...

the perspective of Japanese culture, particularly in regards to "proper" conduct for women. From the beginning of the tale, Osen...

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

driver, and at last he made it to the front in Europe during the height of World War I (Roth, 450). He was seriously wounded in It...

In five pages this paper analyzes This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen in a consideration of moral complacency in the short ...

In fifteen pages women's roles are contrasted as they relate to the Hemingway short stories 'A Canary for One,' 'Che Ti Dice La Pa...

blue hotel against the "dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska," so that the comparison of the two makes Nebraska appear to be a "g...