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and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

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

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

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...

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

persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

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

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

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

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

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

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

thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

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

Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

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...

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

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...

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