YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Essays 211 - 240
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...
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...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...