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that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...
like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...
real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...
camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...
on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...
The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...
happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...