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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...

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

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

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

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

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

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

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

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

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...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

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...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

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...

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...

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...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...