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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 ...

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

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 ...

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...

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...

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 ...

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...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

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...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...

likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...