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This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...

local bar. An old man sits in the corner slowly becoming drunk over the course of the evening. At the end of the evening, the old ...

and repelled by." This writer disagrees concerning the assumption that there was a "blurring" of sex roles during this period. Hem...

by Gertrude Stein was a term she gave to a generation of men and women whose experiences in World War I undermined their belief in...

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

The boy was intrigued by Santiagos resolve and had faith this man he admired would come through. On one of their early fishing ex...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...

is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...

ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...

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 ...

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...

The grandmother thinks she has the answers and is saved, religiously or otherwise, but yet she perhaps seems to realize that this ...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...