YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Two Short Stories by Jin and Chopin
Essays 661 - 690
the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...
discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...
of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
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...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...