YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories Set in the American South
Essays 421 - 450
the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...
an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...
In the OConnor story, a family comprised of a husband and wife, their two children and the husbands mother take a road trip. Altho...
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...
what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...
events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...
an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...
that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...
Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...
her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...
is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...
sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...
do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....
this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...
sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...
she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...
However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...