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Updike and Delillo and the Short Story

Don DeLillo are both stories about observation, but they are completely different, and the difference is unsettling for people who...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

'Circular Ruins' by Jorge Borges

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

Shocking Short Story 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark'

In three pages this paper discusses the wide ranging symbolism associated with 'The Birthmark' in the short story by Nathaniel Haw...

Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour' as a Good Short Story Example

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

Gender Understanding and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

Analysis of 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

Nonconformist Americans in 'Hills Like White Elephants' and 'A Man of the World' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this report discusses the American nonconformism Hemingway represents in thest 2 short stories. Three sources are c...

Joyce, Faulkner, Poe, and Their Short Stories' Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

Raymond Carver and His Stories

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...

Comparative Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Great Stone Face

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...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway and Harold Krebs

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Trying to Find Meaning in 'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

Caroline Knapp's 'Drinking A Love Story'

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...

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and the Narrator

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

D.H. Lawrence/Shadow in the Rose Garden

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

Munro’s Meneseteung

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Setting in Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

Death in Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

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...

Oates/How I Contemplated the World... & Postmodernism

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

The Power, and Pain, of Freedom: Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

THEMES OF INNER CONFLICT IN "THE STORY OF AN HOUR"

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

"The Hills Like White Elephants" - An Interpretation

contrast in each of these dualistic aspects of the setting reflects the dichotomous void that exists between the two central chara...