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Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

An Analysis of Two Short Stories from A Bird in the House

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...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

An Analysis of James Alan McPherson's The Story of a Scar

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...

'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

Kate Chopin's Depiction of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

Kate Chopin's Life and Writings

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

This 5 page paper argues that Phoenix Jackson, the protagonist of Eudora Welty's story A Worn Path, is mentally ill. The writer al...

A Review of Everyday Use

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

Literature and Free Will

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

Plotting and Suspense in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

2 Short Stories on Clashing Religious and Social Values

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

Pinckney Benedict's Town Smokes and Symbolism

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

Human Nature and the Writings of Lee K. Abbott

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

Selected Short Stories and Their Representation of Gender Conflict

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

A Westerner's Trip to Burma

still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...

Angelou Short Story

The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...

THEMES OF INNER CONFLICT IN "THE STORY OF AN HOUR"

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

Forgiveness and the Dew Breaker

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

Descriptive Language in Fiction

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

The Blow is Struck

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

Comparison of Clever Manka and The Story of an Hour

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

Five Short Stories - an Analysis

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

Chopin’s Tragic “Hour”

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...