YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Essays 241 - 270
and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
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...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
In three pages Bartleby and the narrator's relationship are examined within the context of this Herman Melville short story. Ther...
In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...
that the fact that Maupassant was completely able to represent his characters in such a fashion as to give the reader a sense of c...
thematic motif, relating individuals to others, themselves, and, particularly in the African stories, to the land. "The Old Chief...
point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...
tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...
notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...
In five pages this short story by D.H. Lawrence is subjected to a Freudian psychoanalytical interpretation with the character of M...
In three pages postmodern fiction is defined and then considered within the context of 'Experiment,' a short story by Julian Barne...
which seemed only willing to accept White Anglo-Saxon Protestants into its exclusive membership. The narrator of "Sonnys Blues" r...
The focus of this three page paper is a young boy's first experience with death as it unfolds in the short story in James Joyce's ...
Mr. Mooney because of his atrocious act of violence. One must conclude that Mrs. Mooney was not only in fear for herself, but als...
In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
In three pages Raymond Carver's last short story is analyzed in terms of culture and setting. There are no other sources cited....
Dave's perspectives on masculinity are examined in this analysis of 'The Man Who Was Almost a Man' short story by Richard Wright c...
In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
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...