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fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

This essay discusses the themes, symbolism and context of the conflict between the genders that defines this Hemingway short story...

This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...

her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...

a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

This essay presents an analysis of "Everyday Use, " a short story, by Alice Walker. Nine pages in length, seven sources are cited....

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...