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marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

were full of all the fire and brimstone of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an omi...

a sense of apprehension. As he looks back to see her watching him as he rounds the corner by the meeting house he vows that thing...

In six pages this paper examines the theme of social alienation as it pertains to Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts. There are n...

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

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

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

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...