YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Essays 271 - 300
A short story analysis consisting of three pages is presented in terms of the relationship between father and son and the elements...
In five pages this paper examines how the conflict between appearances and reality is depicted in the short stories 'The Minister'...
him and a real gun is fired and he is killed. 6) The narrator is...
In five pages a contrast and comparison of O'Connor's short stories 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' and 'Good Country People...
secrets are inferred. That her father suppressed her sexuality and thwarted her womans life is clearly stated. The town assumes t...
In three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...
from Melville to modern Freudians, Hawthornes fearful secret has been the subject of speculation. But whatever it was and whatever...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
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 ...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...
great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
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...
back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...
workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...
the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...
and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...
letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra actio...
protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...
to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...