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living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

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

and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

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...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...