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the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

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)....

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

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...

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 ...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

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...

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

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

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

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

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...

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...