YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The 1995 Short Story Winner
Essays 541 - 570
stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...
telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...
has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...
the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...
in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...
and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...
right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...
makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...
it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...
he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...
events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...
of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...
tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...
notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...
beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...