Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist and short story writer who wrote mainly of the jazz age. ... While in Paris Fitzgerald wrote and published The Great Gatsby, his most recognized and regarded work. ... Not satisfied with that, Fitzgerald wrote short stories for the Saturday Evening Post, wrote plays, and traveled extensively. ... He wrote about the roaring 20's and is considered the Jazz age historian. ...
They are intertwined, and each chapter plays its part in the overall message and themes of the novel. ... Or maybe Steinbeck wrote it so well that we are able to understand the time and place better after we read it. ... Steinbeck wrote not only about their struggles, but the struggles of all people. ...
Characters played a big role in the story. ... Solomon was the king of Israel and in the story Welty provides information that Solomon is playing a king type role. ... The setting also plays a significant part in the story. ... Welty wrote "It might be if he had not appeared the way he did appear that day she would never have looked so closely at him, but the time people come makes a difference" (519). ...
In the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, setting plays an important key role. ... The square also plays a part in the setting. ... Jackson also wrote, "The women, wearing faded house dresses and sweaters, came shortly after their men folk. ... The reader would not think that there would be any harsh actions in child's play. ...
"The Storm" In the short story "The Storm" the major components that are emphasized are plot, character, and setting. These components work together in order to make the reader visualize life from the characters" point of view. The author, Kate Chopin, tells the story in a unique way that help...
The most descriptive part of the story is in the first sentence or two when he wrote, "It was late and everyone had left the café except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. ... It is ironic that light plays such an important symbolic role in such a dark and gloomy story. ...
On surface, this could be a simple story about two friends playing pool while one complains about his wife. ... As a result he says that he stopped playing pool to take care of his wife. ... In addition to Mae"s crying spells, she becomes frantic when her husband goes to play pool. ... If he tells her that he is going to go play some pool she gets angry and starts yelling at him. ... Because the writer, John O"Hara, wrote with such vague clues and hints, it is the reader who creates the story and supplies the characters" motivations. ...
By the plot of the stories that O" Conner wrote, tells the reader that she has a strong background of religion. ... In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" the Misfit plays a similar role to that of the bible salesman. ... Devil could be brought into play. ...
I think she displayed her own traits in the stories she wrote in each story there was a main character who was either extremely religious or had some kind of medical ailment. ... This is the part of the story was where all the religion came into play. ... She had strong religious beliefs and was passionate about the stories she wrote. ...
Zaroff then makes a deal with Rainsford, if he plays along with Zaroffs "game" and wins he is allowed off the island and whoever looses gets fed to the dogs. ... The author purposely wrote the story like this because he knows that you wouldn't expect this from Rainsford, it didn't seem like he was that type of person...
"The Gift of the Magi," "The Skylight Room," "The Cop and the Anthem," "One Thousand Dollars," and "The Last Leaf" are all short stories that he wrote that contain some of these aspects. ... Money also played an important role in alot of his stories. ...
This attitude is also evident by the role that Abner played in the Civil War, in which he had stolen from both sides. ... It is also after Sarty comes to the realization that he can never go back home The reason that I wrote this analysis is to show how accurately Faulkner adheres to the typical short story form. ...
For example where he focuses that the mother was the one that told him that the girl would rest her head on Phill's shoulder while Gonzalez,2 he played, and that was where he got the idea for the name of the song, it makes me imagine a girl telling this story as if it were very romantic instead of the father just saying it because it happened with the lack of any sentimental value for him. ... We can identify with the way he wrote this because in a way we all have retold a story in one or another point of our lives. ...
Although Faulkner wrote many novels such as Absalom Absalom and The Sound and the Fury, his intuition into the lives of people around him is clearly seen in his shorter stories. ... Faulkner usually played with different perspectives in different stories, using children narrators to describe a situation. ... Faulkner seems to capture the moment in a boy's life when he is just starting to understand the events going on around him, unlike his brother and sister who just naively play. ... This story is interesting because not only does Faulkner play with the perspectives of people very di...
The use of the absurd in this book provokes sympathy for the character and Gogol enjoys playing with his reader's emotions. ... - In Diary of a Madman Gogol demonstrates his ability to skilfully play with the emotions of the readers. ... Gogol wrote through the medium of short stories and his stories were comedical although grotesque. ...
The war played a great tribute to his attitude towards Normandy, of which he describes is "the chamber-pot of France." ... Since his good friend Gustave Flaubert taught him how to write fiction, he has wrote nearly 300 short stories. ... A major theme in Maupassant's short stories, and indeed many of his novels and plays, is the contrast between the rich and the poor. ...
Poe wrote his literary works along his own guidelines that he named, "The Unity of Effect."" ... The reader discovers a little about the prosperous past of the Ushers and the House Of Usher in the song, "The Haunted Palace- that Roderick plays for the Poe. ...
An example from John Oakhurst, who is a professional gambler, is when he says, "throwin up their hand before the game was played out" (Harte 2). ... Also many of the characters that he wrote about are probably personality traits of people he had met during his stay in California. ...
William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" has been interpreted in many different ways. Most of these rely solely on hints found within the story. I believe that his life can also help one analyze this story. By knowing that Faulkner's strongest influence was his independent mother, one can guess that Mi...
(http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) This comes into play when in the text it says: "When the war broke out, Mother Savage's son, who was then thirty three years old, volunteered, leaving his mother all alone. ...
Henry James's - The Turn of the Screw From the moment of its publication, The Turn of the Screw has continuously been a challenge both for the common reading and for criticism. We, the readers, when being unaware of its complexity, may be very easily carried away and fall into all the traps pr...
Young Goodman Brown vs. The Cask of Amontillado. All people have problems with the community in which they live. Their conflicts are either with the people or the ideas of the community. In the story "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne shows his main character, the innocent, pure, and love...
His generosity comes into play when he gives out aniseed-peas to children that were joining in to laugh at him. ... The feeling that is given to the reader is the brother isn't taking his diary entries seriously as he doesn't think it would hurt to give this to anyone, because he believes nothing makes sense in the diary entries since an ill person wrote it. ...
When Jill gets off the bus she wants to play with the other children but Nat tells them all to go home to their parents but he doubted that they would listen. ... At this point of the story Nat realizes that everything that everyone had ever taken granted for, such as playing would never be able to be done again. ...
