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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...

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)....

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

era has wielded its impact on the mother and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the mo...

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 ...

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

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

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

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at three short stories including "The Cranes", "Carnal Knowledge", and "The Necklace"....

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

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...

what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...