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walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

substances regarded as nutriments, its status as a foodstuff is somewhat ambiguous (2002). Water has actually been considered bo...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

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...