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unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

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

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

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

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

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

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

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

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

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...

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...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

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

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...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...