YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories Set in the American South
Essays 271 - 300
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...
a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...
our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...
In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...
Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
In three pages this paper discusses the wide ranging symbolism associated with 'The Birthmark' in the short story by Nathaniel Haw...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
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...
Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...
Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...
the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...