This story tells of a little girl's desire to be named Tandy. ... One day, while the two are enjoying a nice day on their porch, a drunken man staggers next to them and launches into a rant discussing the perfect women, a woman who has the strength to be loved. ...
Likewise, "John Bull" is a representation of the pride Englishmen and women have in their country. ... At the end of the sketch, Irving quotes, " '. . . a little longer and the white man will cease to persecute us--for we shall cease to exist!" ... Furthermore, he uses the persona of the little quarto to share his beliefs and passion about books; he says, "books were written to give pleasure and to be enjoyed" (129). ...
The ghost is linked to historical fact (Hessian mercenaries fought for the British during the Revolutionary War), yet it also signals a sense of historical obscurity and uncertainty-a headless and thus unidentifiable figure killed in a "nameless" battle, surrounded by "floating facts" (p. 273), who, after all, seems little related to either the Dutch or the Yankee protagonist currently inhabiting the area. ... Ichabod's imaginative endeavors tend to align him with the feminine in the story, the women "spinning" by the fire (p. 277), especially in contrast to the brawny Brom Bones. ...
The literature of Flannery O'Connor can appear to be distant and unemotional, as well as unbelievably harsh and violent. Her short stories characteristically conclude with horrific fatalities or an individual's emotional ruin. While O'Connor's mentality seems to be futile and interspersed with sen...
Most of the stories had little to do with his experience as an immigrant in Canada, but focused instead on the uneventful lives of a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. ... Yet Mistry seems little concerned with such matters, and his three stories about Asians in Canada that appear in Tales from Firozsha Baag lack the immediacy that Mukherjee and Divkaruni attain. ... She went on to explain that she had spent four months teaching in a Bombay women's college and she had not witnessed the squalor and misery that Mistry's novel recounts, adding that the ...
Most of the stories had little to do with his experience as an immigrant in Canada, but focused instead on the uneventful lives of a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. ... Yet Mistry seems little concerned with such matters, and his three stories about Asians in Canada that appear in Tales from Firozsha Baag lack the immediacy that Mukherjee and Divkaruni attain. ... She went on to explain that she had spent four months teaching in a Bombay women's college and she had not witnessed the squalor and misery that Mistry's novel recounts, adding that the ...
