YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The 1995 Short Story Winner
Essays 91 - 120
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
and private lives. Indeed, our private lives are becoming very much less private due to the way in which the internet feeds off o...
This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...
for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...
In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
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 six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
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...
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...
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 ...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
"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...
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 ...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
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 five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One 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...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...