YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Essays 271 - 300
a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....
this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...
sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...
an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...
to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...
is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...