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Concepts: Short story, Fiction, Narrative, Life, Love, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Dubliners

Personal development of the main character in Raymond's Run

Everyone has dreams and desires, but sometimes these can make it hard to think of someone besides one’s self. In the story “Raymond’s Run,” Squeaky is a determined and confident girl who is in the process of refining her value and personality. At the beginning...

Raymonds Run Short Story 1 Page

The New Age of Divorce and Social Darwinism in ‘The Other Two’

Published in 1904, Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two” explores the infancy of divorce within New York’s middle-class society by utilizing the concept of the futile struggle to escape social forces that are out of one’s control. In addition to that, the story presents consequences of...

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Literary Analysis: Passing of Grandison

“The Passing of Grandison” is told in the third person and primarily limited to the consciousness of Dick Owens, the cynical and lazy young heir to a large plantation in Kentucky. His desire to win the hand of his lover Charity Lomax leads him on...

Short Story Slavery 3 Pages

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

“Hills Like White Elephants,” is a short story, written by author Ernest Hemingway. It is a story about a man and a woman waiting at a train station talking about an issue that they never name. I believe this issue is abortion. In this paper,...

Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants Short Story 3 Pages

Hulk and Point of View in “The Tiger’s Bride”

What attributes qualify someone, or something, as a monster? Despite the fact that the answer to this subjective query fluctuates immensely among individual persons, for centuries we have attempted to construct a universal definition of the word ‘monster’. The Oxford English Dictionary (1884) illustrates man’s...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber 5 Pages

A LESSON in HIDING

Triѕtаn nаrrоwеd her eyes and glаnсеd оvеr her slumped ѕhоuldеrѕ as she hаѕtilу сrоѕѕеd the ѕtrееt to her usual lunchtime spot, Cal’s diner. She ѕmilеd соngеniаllу at the big man behind the grill and wаvеd at the rеdhеаdеd wаitrеѕѕ. “The usual Trish?” Melanie’s tinkling vоiсе...

Novel Short Story 2 Pages

"Dubliners" and "Kew Gardens": Modernism in Woolf's and Joyce's Works

‘[T]he modern period […] begins really with the late nineteenth [century], when the sense of the passing of a major phase of English history was already in the air.’ Indeed, when we discuss ‘modern’ in terms of literature this tends to be a reference to...

Dubliners Modernism Short Story 4 Pages

Opposing Perspectives of African-Americans and Slavery in “Free Joe and the Rest of the World

Joel Chandler Harris’s short story “Free Joe and the Rest of the World” has long been classified as a prominent example of Plantation Tradition literature. Literature in this tradition often portrays African-Americans as clueless, “shiftless” beings who need white supervision to be happy and productive....

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Personal Perspective on the Society

Through discovering a new perspective, an individual may become able to re-evaluate the values of their world and gain a new insight into their own beliefs or morals. These discoveries are meaningful on a personal and societal level, as they facilitate change. In his poem...

Short Story The Garden Party 1 Page

Cather’s Connection to “Paul’s Case”

To understand art, one must first understand the artist who created it and their motivation in doing so. In Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperance” the protagonist, Paul, is a unique and complex character, which gives insight into the complexity of...

Short Story 2 Pages