YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :3 Short Stories by Poe Analyzed
Essays 211 - 240
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...
as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...
being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...
and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...
this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...
BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...
In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...
cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...
her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...
Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...