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earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

in his conclusions, the "patterns of subjugation, resistance, readjustment and accommodation" that are evident in this period of h...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...