Fiction

Written by Katherine Mansfield, a renowned New Zealand modernist writer, the short story being analyzed is considered one of her notable works. Mansfield is widely recognized as one of the most accomplished short-story writers and has written famous stories such as “The Garden Party,” “The Daughters of the Late Colonel,” and “The Fly.” One of…

The two short stories, The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck and Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway are similar in many ways, and are also different in several ways. Though the settings and plots vary, both are sufficient in capturing the importance of women. To begin, both stories take place in the early twentieth century,…

The late 19th and 20th centuries have seen advances in technology and scientific understanding the likes of which have not been seen before in such a short amount of time in known Human history. In the last hundred and fifty years science has advanced so much that one would barely recognize the lifestyle of Humans…

Gone As she was walking down the highway she kept thinking of how her mom could have end up with Steve, a poor, uneducated, unemployed drunk who probably only married her because she had more money than most people on our block. Her mother only wanted to marry since her husband went to war and…

The man in the water makes what would normally be seen as a normal disaster, if such a thing is possible, into a story that stunned so many people. Allende and Rosenblatt both present alike themes in similar and different ways. One way that these two stories are different is that the man in “The…

The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichol’s in 1967, is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is stuck in the middle of his past and his future. Throughout the film, you learn that Benjamin is a lonely young man who is confused about what to do since he has graduated. During a graduation party…

In William Somerset Maugham’s short story ‘The Lotus Eater’, the character of Thomas Wilson is depicted through his encounter with the narrator. Wilson, an English bank manager who had retired, had chosen to live on the Italian island Capri and was subject to various speculations. However, disregarding these rumors, the author personally met him in…

“Spear and Fang” is certainly not one of Howard’s best tales, but it is with this story that the young Texan became professionally published, in the July 1925 issue of a then fairly recent pulp magazine, Weird Tales. Weird Tales, which had begun publication in March 1923, claimed to be the first magazine entirely devoted…

In Chapter 9 of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creates tension and suspense with his use of the following techniques: form and narrative voice; setting; structure; language and narrative style; social and historical setting and literary tradition. This chapter involves a lot of mysteries which keeps the reader interested and intrigued….

That’s the question Butch repeatedly asks Sundance in the movie while the super-posse is hounding them. I felt like asking it myself as I perused some of REH’s horror stories, specifically “The Black Stone,” “The Thing on the Roof” and his Conrad-Kirowan fragment “The House,” in which his two occult investigators probe the early life…