He expresses to Jig that having the abortion would be the best outcome for both of them, but as they become more indecisive they cannot seem to come to an agreement. Hemingway incorporates the setting of the story to emphasize whether or not the couple will go through with the abortion. ... Conventionally a train goes one way, once it comes it goes. ... Like the oncoming of the train, if she decides to give the baby up there is no going back. The train will keep on moving along just as her life will; Her lover The American does not hold back in voicing his opinion, and expresses how Jigs'...

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A good example of that is when he comes back to his home after a concert, he feels a "loathing of respectable beds, of common food; a shuddering repulsion for the flavorless, colorless mass of everyday existence." ... But unlike what Paul seems to think, he doesn't come from such a poor environment. ... Although he chooses to cut himself out of the world, the world didn't cut back on him. ... But the main event that motivates Paul to kill himself is when he finds out that his theft has been discovered and his father is on his way to bring him back to Pittsburgh. ... (Cather, 224) Pau...

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When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, comes along, Miss Emily refuses to accept them. ... While the reader reads through time and expects the story to be in sequence, Faulkner deliberately switches the time back and forth to emphasize Miss Emily's desire to stay in past. After the author introduces the character of Miss Emily, he goes back even further into the past to explain why Miss Emily possesses her unique personality. ...

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Not to worry if you cannot remember or don't want to, I am sure you have come upon more than a few people that exhibit these two characteristics. In her short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... In her short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... As the story progresses, Arnold unrelentingly demands Connie to come with him for a ride in his car, but Connie feels pressured and threatened by Arnold. ... Connie eventually gives up on any hope that she will be spared from Arnold's wrath and submits to Arnold by hopelessly agreeing with his pressure to c...

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Many believe that a person's character and integrity lie deep within, dating back to what was seen as a child and how they were brought up. ... After pondering the inevitable for what seems like an eternity in the dark woods all alone, Nick fires three shots into the night sky---the signal for his father and uncle to come back in case of an emergency. ... This goes to show how big of an influence a father had on both Nick's as well as Ernest Hemingway's life. ... Where the suicide affair may encompass the unremitting death that surrounds Nick despite his efforts to leave it...

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The fact alone that the narrator had believed only things he had heard and read about blind people goes to show that it is he who is "blind"; blinded by his judgments. ... I noticed this first when the narrator's wife goes upstairs for an extended period of time and he says "I wished she'd come back downstairs. ... It really made me take a step back and realize just how crazy and intense some people are about the judgments they pass. ... It is ridiculous to come to the realization that this man felt uncomfortable around a poor defenseless blind man. ... The importan...

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Hemingway's short story dates back to almost ninety years ago, initially appearing in a collection titled "Men Without Women" in 1927. ... The American wants Jig to have an abortion but tells her she does not have to go through with it if she doesn't want to, though believes it would be for the best. ... Initially, he entirely avoids discussion of the conflict at hand, but later goes on to oversimplify the operation and persistently pushes Jig to go through with it; patronizing her and failing to provide the kind of support and understanding she needs. ... Jig's remark...

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On the other hand, it can be argued that in 'The Tiger's Bride' that the fascination is not with death, but life as the girl does not show her 'naked body' to the beast until he has stripped back his fake appearance. ... This is also evident when the young man goes back to his world. ... This is interesting because it shows that there does not need to be any form of fascination or fascination with death in order for a gothic story to come to life. ... However, once he strips back the disguise and reveals his true beastly self, she undresses. ...

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Though I am sure part of her addition was simply to give our hero that go-to motivational element there is something to be said about Quaid's request for an unmistakably different, and some might argue opposite, type of girl to that which he was currently married to. ... The short story is completely void of any romantic interest beyond the completely incidental inclusion of Quail's wife who offers little more to the story than justification for his desires to go to REKAL and have a vacation if for no other reason than to escape her. ... The ending is reasonably cut and dry, some ar...

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As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India l...

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As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India l...

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While Kafka's novella is comprised of sentence structures that can be interpreted in different ways, the ambiguity in the novella comes not from what is said, but from what is not being said (Sokel 204). ... In "Hills Like White Elephants" there is a commonplace opinion that the implied meaning of the two characters' discussion is about whether the girl should go through with getting an abortion (Link 4). Through this understanding many people assume that every other symbol in the story relates to the abortion without going further into detail about what other meanings the ...

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