YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Loneliness in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Essays 271 - 300
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
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 ...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
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)...
are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
in order to understand the emergence and potency of nationalism we must rely on social communication. That reliance is particular...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
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...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
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...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...