What makes the novel work is not so much its straight forward plot. ... While many of the struggles faced by MacIveys are now the stuff of history, the choices they make, the feelings they endure, the challenges they overcome, and the means by which they overcome them ring as true today as they did in 1984, and 1968, and in 1868, when the story first begins. ...
Short story analysis of: The Cask of Amontillado By: Edgar Allen Poe In one of Edgar Allen Poe's best-known Tales of horror, "The Cask Of Amontillado," he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing. ... In this essay I will examine how Poe utilizes plot elements, style, narration, setting, theme, symbolization, and literary devices in order to create such a horrific and suspenseful masterpiece. "The Cask of Amontillado" weaves all the plot elements together in such a way as to keep a readers attention throughout the entire story without wanting to put it down. ... When...
The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. It was selected to appear in "The Best American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike...
