YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparison Between Flannery OConnor and William Faulkner Short Stories
Essays 121 - 150
In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....
In seven pages this short story which features a woman's fight to freely live her life despite several mental impairment is presen...
In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...
this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...
On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...
of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...
as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...
to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...
In the OConnor story, a family comprised of a husband and wife, their two children and the husbands mother take a road trip. Altho...
ways that any change would be impossible for her. But when Mary Grace whispers her venomous insult, the message strikes home and R...
bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...
of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...
his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...
with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...
This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
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...
is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...