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Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...

can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...

people were desperate for jobs, the owners and those who hired the migrants paid them pennies; as Steinbeck says: "They were hungr...

In four pages student posed questions on the novels Conrad's The Light in the Forest, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Steinbeck's T...

its likely that Lennie will never remember. During the readers introduction to them they come upon a water hole which Lennie immed...

In eight pages the incompatibility between community and capitalism is illustrated through Steinbeck's works Cannery Row, 'The Pea...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

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...

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 ...

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

A paper containing five pages analyzes how Steinbeck views alcohol and alcoholics rather ambivalently but finds a value in using t...

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...