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the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

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...

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

In the OConnor story, a family comprised of a husband and wife, their two children and the husbands mother take a road trip. Altho...

mud hut where Hassan lived with his father" (Hosseini 6). While there was certainly hatred both expressed and suppressed among th...

ways that any change would be impossible for her. But when Mary Grace whispers her venomous insult, the message strikes home and R...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

In five pages this paper considers power and race as they are portrayed in the short stories 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin, 'Bat...

Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...

In five pages this paper analyzes the narrator's mind in this short story by Virginia Woolf. One source is cited in the bibliogra...

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

In eleven pages this tutorial provides valuable information for composing a critique for this short story by Henry James. Six sou...

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...