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Stephen Crane's 'The Monster' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

In seven pages this essay considers transformation within a comparative context of these short stories....

Characterization of Abner Snopes and Symbolism in 'Barn Burning by William Faulkner

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

The Story of Alvar Cabeza De Vaca y Nunez

In five pages the exciting and tragic story of Cabeza and his Florida colonization efforts on behalf of Spain are discussed....

Creative Short Story Romance

In five pages this paper presents an original short story romance which is followed by an explanation of the narrative form used....

Zhang, Lahiri/Memoir and Short Story

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

Poe's Cask of Amontillado

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

Kenneth Roberts/Arundel

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Raymond Carver/"Little Things" and "Mine"

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

Hawthorne & Jackson/Comments on Their Society

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

Chopin/Story of an Hour

is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...

A Review of The Rocking Horse Winner

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Sherman Alexie and Gish Jen: Dealing with Prejudice

would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...

Munro’s Meneseteung

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor and Denial

involved. Julians mother takes center stage as a black woman enters the bus wearing the same hat as his mother. While race certain...

Analysis of Five American Short Stories

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

Short Stories of Kate Chopin

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

Cinderella's Contemporary Variations

own. But there is a version of Cinderella that is commonly known. This version, or compilation of versions, contains fundamental e...

James Joyce's 'A Mother' and Refuting the Interpretation of Martin F. Kearney

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

The Last Two Sections of 'The Plague' by Albert Camus

on the outside world. In one particular quote the reader gets an understanding of this evolution of the people, as it begins, as o...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

Descriptive Language in Fiction

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

The Story of an Hour

outside of this reality. Prior to focusing on these elements within the story it is imperative that a person understand the Vict...

"Young Goodman Brown" - A Psychoanalytic Reading

fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...

The Blow is Struck

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

THEMES OF INNER CONFLICT IN "THE STORY OF AN HOUR"

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...