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

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...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

and be fed if he wants to work the property despite having one arm. In present day society there is really no way that a single wi...

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...

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...

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the author's use of symbolic images. There are two other sources cited in...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

In five pages the grandmother and the Misfit characterizations are examined with the context of good and evil and how those assump...

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

Sylvan Barnet?s A Short Guide To Writing About Literature, foreshadowing in literature "which [one would think] would eliminate su...

demonstrates her own fall from grace. It is because of her distraction with evil -- the Misfit, whom she deems is a quality and u...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...