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Selected Short Stories and Their Representation of Gender Conflict

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

3 Short Stories About Growing Up

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

'The Curse' by Andre Dubus

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

Short Stories

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

Dark But Not Always Gothic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

Forest Motif in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

Kate Chopin's Depiction of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

Pinckney Benedict's Town Smokes and Symbolism

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Analysis of Dubliners by James Joyce

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Three Essays on Realtors and Real Estate

society and no one wants to talk about it, much less have it in the backyard. The solution here is to offer the clinic as a direct...

Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...

Writing and Psychoanalysis

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

Tom Franklin's "Grit"

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

Examining Scenes from Sonny’s Blues

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

Male Gender in Charles Atlas Also Dies

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

Literary Elements in Poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and William Faulkner's Short Story "A Rose for Emily"

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

Lacking Conviction in Sexual Intimacy in "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds and "Lust" by Susan Minot

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...

Moment of Truth in 'The Temple of the Holy Ghost' by Flannery O'Connor

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Political and Personal Beliefs Reflected in Tillie Olsen's Writing

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

'It Takes a Village' in Toni Cade Bambara's Short Story 'The Lesson'

especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...

Rev. Hooper's Last Words in 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

Bharti Mukherjee's Short Story 'A Father'

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

'My Oedipus Complex' by Frank O'Connor

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

'Woman Hollering Creek' by Sandra Cisneros

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

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin and Social Class

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...