Writers Essays

             The druggist is a nameless character in the sentimental short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner but this character functions to move the plot forward in two significant ways. The story spans a period of more than forty years with references to a time before that when …

“Two Ways Seeing a River” by Mark Twain could be classified as both realism and partially one of its subgenres, regionalism. Realism is a genre in which facts and emotional descriptions and phrases are used in order to extract and emotional response from the reader. The style the author ended …

Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking” is an introspective take on the thoughts we have before we slide into sleep. Dreams can be a fascinating insight into the mind, and this speaker, having kept so close track of them, has offered the reader a peek into his subconscious. In those fleeting moments …

The Selfish Giant written by Oscar Wilde, it is about a giant that had the most beautiful garden but wouldn’t let anyone play in it. He was very selfish with his garden and wouldn’t let any little children play in it. One day he had a change of heart and …

John Steinbeck’s short story ‘The Chrysanthemums’ is one of the most critically acclaimed short stories ever. Elisa Allen is a middle-aged, strong but handsome woman working at her husband’s ranch. And surprisingly, not once does she complain, or show any kind of regrets with her lifestyle. But from Steinbeck’s writing, …

This paper will argue that the character Olga in Chekhov’s “Darling” embodies the castrating mother/wife image and not the “submissive wife stereotype” as Milla Bayuk argues in her 1977 article[1].Bayuk’s misinterpretation is caused by the ambiguity between the levels of represented and implied meaning in Chekhov’s story. On the surface …

            Throughout Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, a sense of irony is present, with Montresor and the reader knowing of the plan for revenge, and with Fortunato blissfully unaware; this sense of irony colludes with the ever-descending setting, which deepens into a macabre vision of the underground tomb where Montresor’s …

            “The Bustle in the House” is a short but dramatic work, written in iambic trimester (c. 1866) which in the space of two stanzas, each consisting of one sentence, manages to convey intense meaning.  “The Bustle in the House” uses grammar in the form of nouns, verbs, appositives and …

The story focuses on the Andros family and their interaction with the Markey family. The Markey family set up a party for their baby and invited the Andros family. It is the first party to which the Andros’ young baby girl, Ede, has been invited to and this causes a …

            Mark Twain and Athol Fugard wrote the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the play, Master Harold and the Boys, which are parallel stories.  Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, is set in the United State during the time before the Civil War while Fugard’s Master Harold is set during the …