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Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation o...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

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

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

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...

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

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

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