"Uneasy Homecoming" is a short story by William F. Jenkins, which I would call a scary story. It is about women called Connie who comes home from her holiday to find there has been a series of burglaries in her village. She arrives home in the dark, alone. This shows that the main character is a w...
Dee being pretty, superficial, and snobbish likes to belittle her mother and sister who are neither educated nor pleasing to the eye. ... The imagery used by the author the create Maggie starts with her red skirt. After reading about the fire she had been involved with earlier in the story, it is obvious that the red represents the flames that brushed upon Maggie's body leaving behind a painting of scars. ... Or it may also be depicted by the way she looks at Dee " eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe." ...
Sam, his long silky blond haired and bright blue eyed girlfriend looks back at all the beautiful memories they had created together, and the bright future ahead and she says confidently, "I want you forever and always. ... He seemed to be drowning in a dizzy whirling pool of red, so dark that it was almost black. ...
"He seemed to see, with a cartographer's eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county" (Cheever 1). ... One can see further examples of this time change with the leaves being yellow and red and then later being stripped from the trees. ...
When he gets older he tries to join the army, but cannot because of his bad left eye. Therefore, he joined as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Austro-Italian front. ... Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky, a volunteer nurse for the Red Cross, who has nurse while he was recovering in the hospital. Hemmingway had grown up out of his adolescent looks and now possessed "masculine good looks" (Kert 54) He therefore had the eye of all the nurses, but he wanted only one and she returned the feeling "[devoting] herself to Ernest" (58) Something unexpected happened, she had to leave to go help other patie...
In writing, a symbol is a person, place, or thing that suggests more than its expected and literal meaning in Boyle's short story "Greasy Lake"", he uses the lake in the title for not only a realistic purpose but also symbolically on the realistic level, the lake benefits the plot because it is the ...
In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" all of the characters - most obviously the Grandmother - are concerned only with their own needs and wishes. There is no real relationship or love between them until they come across the Misfit and his mob. When the Grandmother exclaims at the end, "You're one of my c...
