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sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...

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 ...

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...