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It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...