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as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at three short stories including "The Cranes", "Carnal Knowledge", and "The Necklace"....

In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

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...

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

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

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...

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

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

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...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...