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short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is a horrific narrative of delusion, lies and mass murder. It is also anthologized constant...

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

in Will in order to save him from going to jail after Will assaults a police officer. This in turn establishes the time frame whic...

Holland was a shell of a soldier, sitting on a bench at the beach in San Francisco when Pearlie saw him and recognized him instant...

of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...

active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

entire identity. Similarly, Olsen sheds light upon the way intent and effort do not always produce the desired outcome, which is ...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

was the gladiatorial combat of hunting, otherwise called the venatio. Once gathered up from different parts of the Roman empire t...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with amb...

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

any sustenance for her. This brings in the thematic element of the shawl in a very powerful way for Magda would suck on the shawl,...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

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

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...