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is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...

especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...

other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...

woman who is significant, but rather how she makes the male character feel. This is particularly true of young women, who almost f...

she is known for. This particular compilation of stories was written prior to her incredible fame and would thus indicate that she...

life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...

this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...

who despises her life and dreams of wealth and social status. When she is finally invited to an elegant reception, she complains ...

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...

In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...

of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...

Tony Hillerman's collection of stories are discussed in an analysis of historical detail with 'The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo' b...

from Londons story which illustrates how the man is ignorant and in need of the weather to make him strong and enlightened: "But a...

a lady....

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

in Gilbs narrative is that Jake really doesnt know how to be anything other then deceptive and manipulative, the small-time con ar...

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...

The grandmother thinks she has the answers and is saved, religiously or otherwise, but yet she perhaps seems to realize that this ...

paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...

still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...