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Literary Comarison of John Cheever's Stories 'The Housebreaker of Shady Hill' and 'The Worm in the Apple'

modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories and the Theme of Perfection

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

Sam in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

Setting and Language of 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

Setting in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

Analyzing Characters and Setting in Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

'Drink My [Red] Blood' by Richard Matheson

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

'The Sculptor's Funeral' by Willa Cather

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

'The Story of An Hour' by Kate Chopin from a Formalist Perspective

women at the time, including women writers such as Chopin (Levy 242). Structure The structure of Chopins short story "The Story o...

'Flying Home' by Ralph Ellison

Home and Other Stories. The story "Flying Home" had actually been published back in 1944, but had received at that time little cr...

'Desiree's Baby' Short Story Analysis

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

Brief Synopsis of William Faulkner's Barn Burning

This paper offers an explication of the story in three pages and includes setting, tone, style, characters, summary, narrator, the...

'Man in the Black Suit' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes Stephen King's short story in terms of how the author employs the setting of rural Maine. There...

Two Canadian Works Compared

Rohinton Mistry's Swimming Lessons And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag and Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy along with their Bombay ...

Making a Movie Out of Henrik Ibsen's Play A Doll's House

should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...

Themes and Symbolism in 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of perspective, setting, tone, style, and symbolism. Seven sources are cited ...

'Suffer the Little Children' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...

Literary Functioning of Symbolism and Setting

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

Characterizations and Settings of 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This story by William Faulkner is examined in 5 pages in which characterizations and settings are analyzed. There are 5 sources c...

Setting in The Lamp at Noon by Sinclair Ross

effectively touches upon marriage, its meaning within the social backdrop, as well as the requirements necessary to maintain its e...

'Errand' by Raymond Carver

In three pages Raymond Carver's last short story is analyzed in terms of culture and setting. There are no other sources cited....

Symbolism and Setting in 'Revelation' by Flannery O'Connor

In seven pages this paper analyzes this short story in terms of meaning and characterization but focuses primarily upon the 2 sett...

Character and Setting in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this paper presents a short story analysis of the Tessie Hutchinson character and the setting with the importance of...

The Literary Techniques of William Faulkner

This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...

Elementary Schools and Short Story Writing Instruction

In four pages this paper discusses how teachers should implement short story writing instruction in an elementary school setting. ...

Intellectual Infatuation in 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe

"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...

Setting in 'Old Mortality' by Katherine Anne Porter

can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Themes of Pride and Loneliness

In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...

Raymond Carver's 'So Much Water So Close to Home'

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of setting and character development. There is no bibliography included....