YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Two Short Stories on the Family
Essays 211 - 240
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
Jealousy and marriage and how they drive the plot line and story in this paper, which compares Leo Tolstoys' Family Happiness and ...
entire identity. Similarly, Olsen sheds light upon the way intent and effort do not always produce the desired outcome, which is ...
by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...
(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
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,...
The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...
being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...
that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...