YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Essays 181 - 210
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...