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Why Homer Was Murdered by Emily in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

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...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Structural Contrast

to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

Depiction of Women in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

'Never Marry a Mexican' by Sandra Cisneros

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

Analyzing Mrs. Kearney in Dubliners by James Joyce

1984). They are "depicted as powerless, passive, and silent or, if they do act, as monstrous; Mrs. Mooney, after all, has the sens...

Analysis of 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

Looking Beyond the Jockocracy by Bob Barcelona

He is. In fact, the biography that appears at the end of the article explains that he is an Assistant Professor. He does hold a do...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

Themes and Criticism of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...

'I Want to Live!' by Thom Jones

a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...

Money: “The Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston

context to some extent, while also understanding the social and political oppression the African American people experienced at th...

Mrs. Wilson's Battle in "I Want to Live!"

serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...

Hawthorne, Faulkner and the Element of Culture

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

The Machine Stops

first examines Forsters story and then examines particular thematic elements from the story that seem quite relevant today. These ...

Writing Sample in the Style of Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

could well relate to Salingers Holden who finds no hope in the people he meets, no sense of redemption in the adult society. If ...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures, Life, and Judgments

essence, sex was available to anyone and there had previously been no such thing as the selling of sex. But, this also enticed the...

Interpreting 'A Worn Path' by Eudora Welty

path reaches a dead end a new one begins. By choosing a poor elderly African-American woman as her tales protagonist, Welty is ab...

Annotated Bibliography for Greenleaf

the thesis. OConnor, Flannery. "Greenleaf" in Everything that Rises Must Converge. HarperCollins Canada, 1956, p. 24-53. As a ...

Kate Chopin: “The Storm” and “Desiree’s Baby”

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

The Fall of King Arthur and His Kingdom

mean and tear down a kingdom. At least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and...