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first examines Forsters story and then examines particular thematic elements from the story that seem quite relevant today. These ...

could well relate to Salingers Holden who finds no hope in the people he meets, no sense of redemption in the adult society. If ...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

said" (Walker). This very funny little snippet shows clearly what her mother thinks of Dee for making up what she thinks is an Af...

In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

1960s "introduced the theory that children are not born with a gender identity, but rather form an understanding of gender through...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

He is. In fact, the biography that appears at the end of the article explains that he is an Assistant Professor. He does hold a do...

1984). They are "depicted as powerless, passive, and silent or, if they do act, as monstrous; Mrs. Mooney, after all, has the sens...

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

a founding principle of America--but she doesnt receive it. In "The Third and Final Continent," a young Indian man moves first to...

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...