YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love
Essays 421 - 450
The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...
This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
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...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
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 ...
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 ...
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...