Most of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories are aggressive, dark, bizarre, and written in a incentive style. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor, a wine merchant, who tells the story, has acquired a cask of amontillado. Scheming, he had asked Fortunato, whom he has been annoyed with for his slights an...
The deer represents the dying soldiers of the front line of war because it is dead just like the soldiers. ... The contrast of the sun/shade and the hills/level train station indicate the sadness felt by the couple. " there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun."" ...
We can find this in the following lines: "Then the breeze stirred rather more briskly overhead and the color was flashed into the air above, into the eyes of the men and women" - a fairly beautiful picture, and rather vulgar in its other meaning. ... "It appeared to have a definite goal in front of it, differing in this respect from the singular high stepping angular green insect who attempted to cross in front of it, and waited its antennae trembling as if deliberation, and stepped off as rapidly and strangely in the opposite direction." ...
Mallard was held back from much of her ambitions in life: "She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression...." (257). ... Mallard sees her husband walk through the front door, the disappointment and the devastation of loss that she suffers causes her heart to fail. ... The front door opens, however, and her husband walks in. ...
While the short stories A and P and Love in La have two very distinct plot lines and characters, it is through their themes of choice and consequences that a common ground is found between the two. ... Choice and consequence is not apparent in the story until the climax where Sammy decides to quit in front of his boss Lengel. ...
