This essay examines the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. This essay approaches the short story from a formalist perspective. This essay will attempt to analyze the main character, the narrator, as she reveals herself within the tale. The narrator is supposedly in need...

In her creative non-fiction literature, ‘Living like Weasels’ Annie Dillard concentrates on explaining what influences the choices that weasels make with regards to how they live their lives. Dillard states that “A weasel is wild. Who knows what he thinks” (Dillard 1). Dillard expresses that weasels are free and that...

In literature, there are a series of genres and themes which are used to tell a larger story. This a popular form of writing from the 18th and 19th century. It focuses on a number of different themes to include: romanticism, mystery and horror. This provides the audience with another...

In the opening line of his short story “Araby,” James Joyce employs a rather startling description of the street on which his protagonist lives. The very oddity of the construction of the sentence “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers'...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the United States’ most renowned writers, known for his dark short stories filled with macabre elements. Though his stories were published well over one hundred and fifty years ago, they continue to excite and frighten readers today. One of the best examples of such...