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A Plot and Setting’s Analysis of James Joyce’s Short Story “Araby” (1501 words, 2 pages)

Light, vision and beauty by NWOSDM The setting in "Araby" reinforces the theme and the characters by using imagery of light, darkness and beauty. The experiences of the boy in James Joyce's "Araby" illustrate how people often expect more than ordinary reality can provide thus causing disillusionment as well as ... Read More

An Introduction to the Elements That Make up a Short Story (1338 words, 3 pages)

What Elements Makes Up A Short Story?What is a short story? What are the criteria necessary for a short story? What makes a good short story? After lengthy debates between many groups weve decided that it can not be decided by consensus, but by what we feel a short story ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Short Story a Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (2239 words, 3 pages)

The short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor could be viewed as a comic strip about massacre and martyrdom. What stops it from becoming a solemn story is its intensity, ambition, and unfamiliarity. O'Connor blends the line between humor and terror as she uses a ... Read More

Characterization of Emily in William Faulkner’s Short Story “A Rose for Emily” (1961 words, 3 pages)

The Factors that Form the Character Emily GriersonThe characters in a work of literature are not only formed by their characteristics, but also by the story. There are many factors in a story which shape the characters. These may include the setting, mood, and theme. In William Faulkners A Rose ... Read More

A Creative Short Story of Danny Time With Grandma (4194 words, 7 pages)

SHORT STORYCome on Gramps, you old steam train! Yelled a voice.Calm down you rat-bag, Im old you know replied another from within the brush. A head popped out, slightly wind-beaten and worn, where ya to? he asked. There was a small rustling to the right of him, Not tellin! the ... Read More

A Short Story of My Experience at the Reno Tournament in My High School (2525 words, 3 pages)

To love something so much and to be so good at it, but then have it stripped away from you when you least expect it is tragic. Soccer has been the sport of my choice since I have been three years old. It was the love of my life. I ... Read More

A Review of Herman Melville’s Short Story “Bartleby the Scrivener” (817 words, 2 pages)

Amanda FisherFebruary 16, 2001Bartleby, in Herman Melvilles short story Bartleby the Scrivener is a character who lives his life in utter isolation. However, it is obvious from the story that he does affect one persons life. The narrator of the tale, an aged lawyer, is a caring figure, though not ... Read More

A Review of Marie Le Prince’s Short Story “Beauty and the Beast” (860 words, 2 pages)

Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beast is a short story written by Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. She was a French woman, who lived in London when this story was published. The main characters in this story are Beauty, her father the merchant and the Beast. Beauty was the ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Short Story Paul’s Case by Willa Cather (629 words, 1 pages)

It is said that books are better then the movies created from books. I feel that the story and the film complement each other for Willa Cathers short story, Paul's Case, is about a young, Calvinist man who did not feel that he belonged in his life. He lived on ... Read More

An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (4184 words, 8 pages)

Ernest Hemingway was one of a group of artists in the inter-war period of the early twentieth century who was left mentally (and for Hemingway also physically) scarred by the total devastation he witnessed during and after the Great War. Gertrude Stein labeled Hemingway and his peers "a Lost Generation", ... Read More

An Essay on the Love and Guilt of Joe and Mabel in the Short Story, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D.H. Lawrence (603 words, 1 pages)

This story is about a girl named Mabel who tries to commit suicide by drowning herself in a pond. A young doctor, Joe Ferguson, saves her. She then believes that he loves her. Although this idea never occurred to Joe, he begins to find that he indeed loves her. However, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Short Story “I’m a Fool” (269 words, 1 pages)

I very much enjoyed reading the short story Im a Fool. It was very readable and it madea lot of sense to me. I know exactly what the narrator was feeling and thinking in thestory, as I have been in similar situations.There are often times when you feel that it ... Read More

A Review of Tillie Olsen’s Short Story “I Stand Here Ironing” (635 words, 1 pages)

A Mothers DecisionIn the short story I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen, the reader is introduced to a mother faced with a strong internal conflict involving her eldest daughter Emily. Emilys mother makes a very meaningful statement at the end of the story. Her statement was help Emily to ... Read More

An Analysis of Ann Beattie’s Short Story “The Lawn Party” (644 words, 1 pages)

Ann Beattie writes her short story The Lawn Party as a male narrator. Because men tend to be less emotional than women are, this makes the narrators point of view more believable. Although this is a story that moves from one agonizing situation to another, the lack of human emotion ... Read More

A Review of Mark Helpin’s Short Story “The Samantha” (1386 words, 2 pages)

An interesting short story is Letters from The Samantha by Mark Helpin. This story tells the fascinating tale, in the form of never sent letters, of an ape brought aboard an iron-hulled sailing ship in 1909 by Samson Low, the ships captain. Although the author makes a point to tell ... Read More

An Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s Short Story The Lottery (869 words, 2 pages)

Human NatureShirley Jacksons short story The Lottery depicts a seemingly average village with average citizens. The citizens of this village participate in an annual lottery in which the winner will be stoned to death. It is believed that the death of the winner will bring heartier crops to the village. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Short Story Bartelby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (2327 words, 5 pages)

All literary works are written from a specific standpoint. This standpoint originates from the mind of the author. The author, when creating his literary work, has a specific diagramplan and vision of what the story is supposed to convey. However, not all readers will interpret the literary work in the ... Read More

The Theme of Homosexual Relationships in the Short Story Miss Massey by Chris Payne (641 words, 1 pages)

Miss MasseySummaryIn the British short story from 1992 we hear about Miss Massey a homeless woman who lives at the Underground station. Tony, a gay man working there helps her from time to time. Even though he might loose his job. It is Christmas Eve so he decides to bring ... Read More

A Lesson on the Shortness of Life in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Short Story The Hollow of the Three Hills (691 words, 2 pages)

Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne, created many short stories which involved strange, or even stranger, supernatural events and behavior. Many of Hawthornes stories were written on the basis of his life occurrences and what he believed and also what he wanted his readers to believe. Also, almost every single one of Hawthornes ... Read More

The Symbolism of the Setting in the Short Story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway (1466 words, 2 pages)

The most striking feature of the short story Hills Like White Elephants is the manner in which it is told. It is not typical in the classical sense with an introduction, a development of the story and an end. Instead, we get some time in the life of two people, ... Read More

Binary Oppositions in I Stand Here Ironing, a Short Story by Tillie Olsen (1125 words, 2 pages)

Tom PennyApproachesPaper 2The story, I Stand Here Ironing, contains binary oppositions which work together to support the structure of the text. I listed several of these oppositions in my notes, but I am only going to discuss a few that I found were connected to each other throughout the story. ... Read More

A Comparison of the Short Story Magic, the Storm and a Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1090 words, 2 pages)

Life in the twentieth century is different through each decade but also much different than life in a century before. The short story "Magic", written by Katherine Anne Porter in 1930, shows how people think they have choices in life but their future is actually already planned out for them. ... Read More

Character Analysis: Roselily from Alice Walker’s Short Story (741 words, 2 pages)

Beck 1In the short story, Roselily, by Alice Walker, the main character is torn between the imprisonment of marriage and the insecurity of single hood. Getting married is supposed to be one of the most joyful and beautiful experiences in a persons life. However, for Roselily it seems like she ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Mrs. Mallard in Kate Chopin’s Short Story The Story of an Hour (769 words, 2 pages)

Throughout history the roles of women has changed dramatically. Women have been enslaved, put down and their rights taken away from them. Women have slowly but surly evolved into the individuals ones sees today in public office, law firms or even the five o clock news. However this evolution did ... Read More

An Analysis of Katherine Anne Porter’s Short Story The Grave (1606 words, 3 pages)

Born May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas Katherine Anne Porter has written numerous short stories and a novel. Katherine Anne Porter uses autobiographical information and symbolism to relate the story of Mirandas maturation into adulthood in her short story The Grave. In The Grave, Miranda discovers her feminine side ... Read More

The Conflict in the Short Story, The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane (447 words, 2 pages)

daveandpathotmail.com Inbox Compose Addresses Folders Options Help Compose Directories Egreetings To Subject Cc Bcc Save Outgoing Message David Hege387 Chester Tysinger Dr.Lexington, NC 27292336-859-3209daveandpathotmail.com "The Blue Hotel" The Swede is a major source of conflict in "The Blue Hotel". The external conflicts that he faces are caused by implied internal ... Read More

An Analysis of the Short Story, The Dead by James Joyce (989 words, 2 pages)

The Dead" is a story saturated in music. In it, the Morkan women - Aunt Julia, Aunt Kate, niece Mary Jane, all music teachers - are giving their annual Yuletide fete, complete with song and dance. Most of the "The Dead" takes place at a Christmas party in Dublin about ... Read More

A Literary Anaylsis of the Short Story the Doll (572 words, 2 pages)

The DollThis short story, "The Doll" is about poor out of work okies back in the early 1930's looking for any type of job they can find, so they can get paid or something to eat. Mrs. Hollis and the two okies are the main characters in the story. The ... Read More

Symbolism in the Short Story, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (915 words, 2 pages)

"The Fall of the House of Usher"by Edgar Allan PoeThe mind is a complicated thing. Not many stories are able to portray this in such an interesting manner as in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". The haunting story of a man and his sister, living ... Read More

A Literary Anaylsis of the Short Story the Gift of the Magi (682 words, 1 pages)

In the short story The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry, the couple, Mr. and Mrs. Dillingham Young sacrificed their most prized possessions for one another. They did this in order to buy each other nice Christmas presents. Dellas most prized possession was her beautiful hair that she cut ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013