YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Essays 211 - 240
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
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...
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...
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...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
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...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
This 6 page paper is an analysis of the short story by Camus called The Guest. This paper gives a summary of the story as well as ...
This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...
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...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
"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 books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...
that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...