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that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

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

story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...

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...

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

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

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

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 ...

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

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...