YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker
Essays 301 - 330
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
steps back. Critics have largely agreed on the substandard quality of British cinema in the years immediately following World War ...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
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...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
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...
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...
this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...
other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...
life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...
woman who is significant, but rather how she makes the male character feel. This is particularly true of young women, who almost f...
she is known for. This particular compilation of stories was written prior to her incredible fame and would thus indicate that she...
journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...
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 ...
a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...
and the girls eyes [stop] rolling. At this point Mrs. Turpin asks her, What have you got to say to me?" (Bernardo [3]). This of...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
the perspective of Japanese culture, particularly in regards to "proper" conduct for women. From the beginning of the tale, Osen...
domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...
The grandmother thinks she has the answers and is saved, religiously or otherwise, but yet she perhaps seems to realize that this ...
End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...
what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...
room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...