YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories Set in the American South
Essays 241 - 270
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
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...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
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...
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...
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...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
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 ...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....
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...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
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...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...
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...