In the short story Another Country, the author Ernest Hemmingway, seems to believe that wounds to the emotions are infinitively worse than wounds to the body, this can be easily proven from a simple light reading of the story. ... This is supported by the ending of the short story where the major is greatly distressed, not, however, distressed by a physical wound but a wound to his mind, for his wife had just passed recently. ... The photographs did not make much difference to the major because he only looked out of the window" (440) I believe the author ends the story in this fashion to po...

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This leads to a tyrannical atmosphere given off by his wife who expects more from Van Winkle. ... Everyone in the town was for the most part happy with Van Winkle, except for his wife. Before he takes is slumber, his wife constantly berates him for being so nice and easygoing to the rest of the town. Dame Van Winkle (his wife) would always get angry with him over his duties, enough so for Van Winkle to run away. ... Rip Van Winkle might as well be one of the most famous a pieces of art ever to come out of our early country. ...

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The characters in John Cheever's "The Country Husband"" are very important to the point that Cheever is trying to make. ... From the outside, Francis eye seems to have it all; a good job, a happy family, a nice house and a beautiful wife. ... His kids are consumed with their own lives and his wife is only thinking about the next party she'll be attending. Next, Cheever describes to us Julia Weeds, the beautiful wife of Mr. ... Weeds does have a good job; he is the supplier for the family because his wife is a homemaker. ...

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An actual storm that takes place in the remote Louisiana country sets off a chain of events that contributes to the passionate storm that occurs between the two main characters. ... This leaves Bobinot's wife, Calixta, home alone. ... That night, Alcee wrote a letter to his wife, Clarisse, telling her not to hurry back from her vacation in Biloxi. ... While Bobinot does show concern for his wife, he does not seem to be aware of her passionate nature. ...

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The man described as "the biggest man in the country...when he stood up to speak, stars and stripes came right out of the sky...and when he argued a case, he could turn on the harps of the blessed and the shaking of the earth underground" was Daniel Webster. ... The last character, Jabez Stone, wasn't given a very active role in the short story, but he was described as " an unlucky man...he had a good wife and children, but the more he had the less there was to feed them." ... His wife, her mother, the neighboring farmers and the housekeeper were also given more substantial roles in the...

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After being sentenced to leave the country for burning a man's barn, he shows no emotion to his family. ... Later in the story after they had arrived at their next house, he orders his wife, her sister and his two daughters to unload the wagon. ... There was no evidence to rule against Abner so he was advised to leave the country. ... I don't figure to stay in a country among people who- (217). ...

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We take people from other countries, backgrounds, beliefs, and religions and combine them all together to make an unstoppable force. ... This oath is a symbol of you standing up for your country, defending what the United States stands for against all enemies. ... That your faith and allegiance are with this country and this country alone. ... The setting of the short story seems to take place in the mid-20th century in a normal household of the husband and his wife. ... This compares to the husbands situation because in order to not make his wife mad and get along with an old friend of hers, ...

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Jhumpa Lahiri background coming from an India family influenced her writings by including characters who are from India dealing with similar problems such as a 2nd generation immigrants living in the united states and difficulties and dilemmas that come from being born in another country. ... This represented the third-largest immigrant group by country, behind Mexico and China. ... She states that the husband and wife from an Indian decent were happily married at one point. ... This is a story about an Indian husband raising a family who lost his wife leaving their daughter Akash and her so...

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Morals are probably the most important thing in the British Government, because it keeps the country under good order, and provides different ideas and opinions; without morals our country would be perfect. ... In The Jewels, Maupassant describes Monsieur Lantin as being quite a well-off man, but when his wife dies he becomes poor and sells his wife's jewels for large sums of money. ... Then, at the end, Lantin marries a second wife, who we are told makes his life a misery. ...

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He and his wife worked menial jobs in order to pay their bills. ... He and his wife Maryann finally divorced in 1983. ... His wife tells the narrator that Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable. ... According to his wife, he has no friends. ... Her marriage deteriorated as she traveled around the country with her husband, and through her subsequent suicide attempt, separation and divorce, she and the blind man kept in touch. ...

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Perverseness provides the rationale for otherwise unjustifiable acts, such as killing the first cat or rapping with his cane upon the plastered-up wall behind which stood his wife's corpse "...already greatly decayed and clotted with gore." ... Guilt about those actions indirectly leads to the murder of his wife. ... The belief in the evil eye dates back to ancient times, and even today, is fairly common in India and the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. ...

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In the short story, "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife-, Nick is shown how to "treat- a woman by his father. ... Hemingway also uses clues to show that women don't have a significant role by using a phrase such as "Then he heard his wife's voice from the darkened room."" ... Nick's ideas of women are finally changed in "Cross-Country Snow-. ... Hemingway leads the reader to believe that him and his wife have separated because she nor Nick's son is on the camping trip. ...

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It is later revealed that, despite the money that he has gained through his wife, Nicholai still "lived stingily, kept his wife half-starved, and put her money into the bank in his own name" (4). Nicholai's wife, who had lived a comfortable lifestyle with her previous husband, was unaccustomed to what she had to deal with due to her new husband. ... In "Gooseberries" it is fairly easy to see the part that Nicholai plays in his wife's death. ... This contrast is very effective in describing the position that Nicholai is in because he is essentially drunk on his dre...

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In Earnest Hemingway's three short stories, In Another Country, Hills Like White Elephants, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"" Hemingway communicates the same underlying message, loneliness and separation. ... "The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty - This quote comes from In Another Country and understates the horrifying images of war. ... He is living off of his wife for support, but does not really love her. ...

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Now, the satisfaction accompanying his adventure has gone; his disillusionment abandons him with hollowness, and 'even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.' ... She ends up losing her beauty and a passive wife to an alcoholic, abusive man. ...

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Paul Country Club., Ginevra King. ... Then in 1917 while he was serving his country he met the second love of his life, Zelda("F. ... They got married, but their marriage was a wreck because Fitzgerald strived so intensely to write a story that would make him famous that it drove his wife crazy, but it wasn't all Fitzgerald's fault. His wife cheated on him not long after they were married(de Koster 27). ...

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Edgar Allan Poe is an American writer of the19th century. His writing style is absolutely different from others. He always creates mysterious characters in his writings. In the beginning he was introduced as a poet then he became a famous short story writer of the uncanny, but he kept writing poems. His writings keep the readers thinking eagerly about what is going to happen in the next few lines. ...

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Ambrose Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1842 and died in 1914. He was an author of supernatural stories, which were seen in both weird tradition and in American letters at large. The stories in his two primary volumes often added a Western setting to a gothic fiction with psychological a...

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Consequently: her family, including: her son Bailey, his wife, her grandson John Wesley, and her granddaughter June Star; were not too respectful of her as a family member and an adult. ... Here, they met Red Sammy Butts and as the author describes, his little old country wife, who adored little June Star. ...

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Humans always believe that whenever there is a problem someone around the country or the world will come up with an explanation. ... The next day, the same thing is happening all over the country, thousands of birds are heading inland. ... Nat screamed for his wife to let him in. ... After supper they heard planes and Nat's wife and children get their hopes up. ... At this point Nat felt isolation but he did not let his wife and children know. ...

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Humans always believe that whenever there is a problem someone around the country or the world will come up with an explanation. ... The next day, the same thing is happening all over the country, thousands of birds are heading inland. ... Nat screamed for his wife to let him in. ... After supper they heard planes and Nat's wife and children get their hopes up. ... At this point Nat felt isolation but he did not let his wife and children know. ...

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Neville sees Thakali, his wife and son and the rest of the people there as ingenious villagers of a small, unspoiled mountain society. ... A majority of poor countries in the 3.world lives on tourism, which becomes their basic source of money. ... The important thing of globalization is to avoid the world being built up by small countries, that do not work together and to expand our cultural knowledge. ...

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He told her that already she looked like a born country woman. ... However, the beautiful picture is rapidly broken by a hostile atmosphere when the wife says " She reminded him it was only because he didn't drink coffee himself" (p. 86). an a moment later she continue mocking at him "...if he thought they were going to run a laundry" (p. 86)? Also the husband's repressed feelings and hostility is plainly brought up when he talks about the wife's "...insane habit..." ...

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L"Amour was especially proud of his mother's ancestry, beginning with Godfrey Dearborn, who arrived in this country in 1638, an antecedent of General Henry Dearborn, who marched with Arnold to Quebec. ... His wife, Kathy, proofread his work, checking for typos and redundancies. ... He was the only novelist in this nation's history to be granted either of the country's highest honors-the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom-and L"Amour received them both. ... Much of his research for the material about the American frontier was done while knocking a...

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He turns against his wife and mutilates the "brute." (p.11) By the end of the story, he killed his wife in an attempt to kill the cat. Afterwards, the narrator does not even feel remorse for the wrongful death of his wife. ... Guilt about those actions indirectly leads to the murder of his wife who had shown him the gallows on the second cat's breast. ... It could be a substance such as plaster perhaps, foreshadowing the narrator's wife's burial within the cellar wall. ...

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