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Writing Style of Raymond Carver

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Flies' and Aeschylus's 'Oresteia'

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...

'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and Identity

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

Health and Illness Interpretations

shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes clear t...

Interpretation of 'Araby' by James Joyce

the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and 'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages these stories are compared and contrasted in terms of their portrayals of good and evil and the failings of society....

'The Wedding Knell' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and its Themes

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Descent into the Maelstrom' and 'MS Found in a Bottle'

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

Blindness in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers

symbolizes heavy choices, heavy responsibility, and perhaps many different things to many different people. It also helps us see t...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

John Keats and Ernest Hemingway

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

'Araby' by James Joyce and Growing Up

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

How the Angel Was Perceived by the Townspeople in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe, 'Shooting the Elephant' by George Orwell and the Human Heart

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...

Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon' and Irony

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

Worth Reading 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Symbolism

play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...

Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...

'The Lady with the Dog' by Anton Chekhov

he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...

'The Lady with the Pet Dog' by Joyce Carol Oates

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

Beth Lordan's 'The Man with the Lap Dog'

are the American couple and they are simply trying to get in an adventure before Mark dies. They have always wanted to see Ireland...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Objects

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...