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taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...

and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...