Hemingway's economical writing style and narrative structure often seems simple, but his method is calculated and used to complex effect. In his writing Hemingway provided detached descriptions of action to capture scenes precisely. By doing so he avoided describing his characters' emotions and thou...

'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allen Poe opens using a first person narrative, where the writer tells the story. When this method is used, the narrator is called 'I' and as it is subjective the readers know only what the narrator tells us and how he/she feels. Since the first...

Am I Blue? A title appropriately fitting a child's fairy-tale, one of colours, horses and of course, pretty rainbows. But its true meanings are not as "pretty" as its title suggests. This piece of literature, like most of Alice Walker's work, encompasses many concealed meanings i...

Helen Garner, in her short story collection, My Hard Heart, uses a wide variety of different narrative perspectives. Each type of narration is closely linked with, and special to, the story or experience being told. Susan Hosking, describes Garners writing style as an 'ability to refine subject matt...

The short story The Tell Tale Heart written by Edgar Allan Poe and respectively the play A Street Car Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams portrays the notion of discovery through the use of a variety of techniques. These techniques aids us in the discovery of the narrators obsession with kil...

My enjoyment in A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin, is in no comparison with my indulgence in The Ghostly Letter by Susan Millner Graham. I much more prefer The Ghostly Letter because of the way is written compared to A Pair of Silk Stockings. A pair of Silk Stockings was told in an omniscien...

Tom Whitecloud, the author of the short story Blue Winds Dancing, utilizes a fairly common type of structure to portray the journey of a young Indian man. Whitecloud set the events up in chronological order, although the action is stopped quite frequently to allow the thoughts of the main charact...

This is the study of two narrative styles in two different short stories. "ODOUR OF CHRYSENTEMUMS" by D.H Laurence, and "A ROSE FOR EMILY" BY William Faulkner. These two stories have a common trait that is having for principal character a woman; however the way each narrator is ...

Edgar A. Poe After reading some of his works in class, one realizes that his mysterious style of writing is greatly appealing. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, it was said, "Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurkin...

Jared BadenhopEnglish 202October 3, 2000"Excess Baggage"FORM"The Things They Carried," written by author Tim O'Brien, is the fictionalized realistic war story telling of the baggage and necessity created by and in war. The story is told through the third person narrative, utilizing either Tim himse...

William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" draws a vivid picture of the south of the United States the turn of the century. It begins with the narrator mentioning the funeral of Miss Emily. Faulkner's style in revealing the consequences of Emily Grierson's life and the shocking revelations of her death i...

Contin Mariangela 428384/LL Faulkner's "A rose for Emily": the narration The narrator in this short story is an omniscent one, endowed with the ability of inner view into the minds of his characters. He echoes the words, thoughts and suspicions of an entire small-town commun...

this is done through his use of setting and narrative style. In many of Poe's works, setting is used to paint a dark and gloomy picture in our minds. I think that this was done deliberatly by Poe so that the reader can make a connection between darkness and death. For example, in the "Pit and the ...

Timothy Findley, through his well-written short story "War," excellently proposes an important message that the occurrence of war does not only affect the relationship of the main communities involved, but also countless innocent lives. Findley, by setting his story in a small farmland in the Rural ...

Horror and suspense-filled movies, books, and stories are America's favorite form of entertainment. One of the most famous American writers is Edgar Allen Poe who wrote the two famous stories "The Tell- Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat". In the "The Tell- Tale Heart" and " The Black Cat" narrative and...

The stories "Barn Burning" written by William Faulkner and "Paul's Case" written by Willa Cather both have two separate characters with very similar troubles. Each has a uniquely sad narrative. "Barn Burning" is a sad story because it not only shows the classical struggle between the underprivileg...

Considered perhaps the greatest American playwright, Tennessee Williams was raised in Mississippi and achieved success early on in his career when he won the New York Critics' Circle Award in 1944-45 for the Broadway debut of The Glass Menagerie. Williams went on to win the same award and ...

\"Spotted Horses\" and \"Mule in the Yard\" are two short stories by William Faulkner that deal with comedic animal chases. Although both provide entertaining examples of Faulkner\'s work in very similar settings, on the scale of literary value, \"Spotted Horses\" rises above \"Mule in the Yard\" i...

The Dark Nature The short story "The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allen Poe, depicts a horrific act of revenge performed by Montresor against his noble Fortunato who insults him. This revenge leads to Fortunato's death. The story paints a picture of terror and retribution. Poe u...

"Scapegoat", what a strange term. Two words that have no connection being used in the same word. The word escape, which means to flea from danger, and the word goat, which is a common farm animal. How could these go together? A scapegoat is someone who is blamed for the mistakes or ...

How does Faulkner direct and shape the reader's reaction's to the story? Faulkner takes advantage of flashbacks while he is constructing his narrative in order to accomplish a great effect of suspense. First, the narrator presents some fictional facts that provide verisimilitude to the ...

I found "The River" an intriguing tale, full of mystery and unexplained phenomenon. If someone if unaware of the whole book, Kindred, or even of the writer's actual purpose for penning it, he cannot put The River in the perspective of slave narrative. Rather he could enjoy the chapter...

What is narrator? Narrator is the voice the author creates to tell the story. The possible ways of telling a story are many, and more than one way can be worked into a single story. Conventionally, the various narrators that storytellers draw upon can be grouped into four broad groups: the third-p...

Shrout 1 Aspects and Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe's " The Cask of Amontillado" and the "Black Cat" What makes literary works considered great, and furthermore what makes the greatness of the work withstand the test of time? The answer to both of these questions is the same. Greatness of literar...

A Deeper Darkness Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the most influential short story authors of mystery, suspense, and the supernatural. His usage of literary techniques compels his reader to finish his tales at one sitting. It is believed that Poe's usage of first-person narrative i...