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all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

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...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

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 "...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...