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of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

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...

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...

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...