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tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th annivers...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...