... is on a drunken rampage. In this short story, both the characters and setting have symbolic meaning. The first character introduced in the story is Jack Potter. "The man's face was reddened from many days in the wind and sun, and a direct result of his new black clothes was that his ... - (Bassan 14). The bride is the weapon of change against which Scratchy's guns are useless, and she is the main source of the argument between Potter and Scratchy. Scratchy Wilson, Crane's third primary character and the antagonist of the story, also has symbolic meaning. He is described as "a man in ......

• Word Count: 1768
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... cold December morning. Although we are know that she is traveling through woodland, the author refrains from telling us the reason for this journey. In the midst of Phoenix's travels, Eudora Welty describes the scene: "Deep, deep the road went down between the high green-colored banks. Overhead the live-oaks met, and it was ... , and she replies "Lying on my back like a June-bug waiting to be turned over, mister" (56) as she reaches out her hand. When Phoenix refers to herself as June-bug on its back, she is letting the hunter know how helpless she is. The hunter then lifts her up and ma...

• Word Count: 1331
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... children expect in adults they trust and have emotionally close relationships. In "Salvation"" by Langston Hughes, Langston himself writes an autobiographical short story in first person point of view. A brief synopsis of the story is that a young boy with no religious belief is influenced and convinced by his aunt to attend a church rally and to accept Christ into his life. Given ... ...

• Word Count: 1548
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... his past plainly, after having a painful experience to become an adult. To the boy, Araby was an unexpected place for a ceremony to become an adult and a mirror reflecting a new world. (Synopsis) A lonely boy, moved by the unknown mystery, falls into a feeling of puppy love to his friend's sister, Mangan. On day she asks him an errand to go to Araby and ... ...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5

... approach, deriving from a geographical crisis, becomes obvious in Stephen Crane's short stories, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky and The Blue Hotel. The first is a tale about a town Sheriff, Jack Potter, who is returning home from a trip where he has married. Jack returns shamefully with his new wife, because the town of Yellow Sky Knows Jack as a fearless marshal, and his ... ...

• Word Count: 2241
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Maxwell home where Billy the Kid had been killed, and talked to the woman who offered the outlaw his last meal. While wandering about the West, he joined a circus in Phoenix, leaving three weeks later to El Paso. He then hoboed his way to Galveston, Texas, where he hired on as a merchant seaman. His first cruise was to the West Indies ... ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School