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This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In three pages this paper discusses the wide ranging symbolism associated with 'The Birthmark' in the short story by Nathaniel Haw...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

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

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

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

enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

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

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

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

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

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

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 ...