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This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

the good place" (Hemingway 29). The same way in which nature balanced Hemingways perspective of the world around him, Adams aff...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

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...

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...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

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

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

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...

of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

what dull or even dim-witted character," as from the start, he is passive and seemingly uncaring (Griem 95). It is clear that he c...

can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...

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...

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...

in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I. Henry meets and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Soon af...

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

"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...

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

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

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

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

their lives and their emotions. These men did not need a woman to encourage them or to make them feel like they were men. Inter...

discuss the men. In the article concerning Hemingway the author notes that "Description so vivid that it enables one to be there i...

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