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had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

This 3 page paper gives a example for verbal, situational, and character types of irony. This paper includes three instances in th...

In four pages this paper examines how these themes are represented in McCullers' A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud and Joyce's Eveline. The...

In six pages this paper provides breakdowns of Childhood, Adolescence, Maturity, and Public Life in a consideration of story plot ...

The focus of this three page paper is a young boy's first experience with death as it unfolds in the short story in James Joyce's ...

Mr. Mooney because of his atrocious act of violence. One must conclude that Mrs. Mooney was not only in fear for herself, but als...

In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...

In five pages this essay analyzes James Joyce's short story and the meaning of 'dead' within the characterization of Gabriel. The...

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

joyce.html). His mother, Mary Jane Murray, was "ten years younger than Stanislaus, was an accomplished pianist whose life was domi...

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

yet, continued Gabriel, his voice falling into a softer inflection, there are always in gathering such as this sadder thoughts tha...

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

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

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

classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read" (Joyce). With Sonnys brother there is a sense of helplessness...

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...

In four pages this paper discusses the story in a letter Eveline pens to her father in which she expresses her desire to leave her...

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...