... lead to happiness or grief, or characters will lose or win. That is why the shape of short story is so well fitted to express this experience of the quest for identity. American writers, such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers ... and others have all experienced the approach of this theme in their short stories. The way they have envisaged their works centered on the theme of the quest for a specific identity is part of their p...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... it so widespread? Sheldon Solomon, PH.D., professor of psychology at Brooklyn College in New York says, "Fear of death comes from the human evolution into intelligent creatures. As anthropologist Ernest Becker argued, we have survived in part because we can ponder the past, plan for the future and imagine and make real things that may ... of death's inevitability. The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"" by T.S. Eliot, also confronts a discomfort with the idea of death, an event that signals the end of one's time living. Often within "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock- the narr...

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• Grade Level: High School