Bibliography lists 7 sources. A five page paper looking at the process by which adolescents separate themselves emotionally from their parents values and goals. The paper argues that in both stories, the young protagonists come to the difficult realization that the person their parents want them to be is simply not who they are. No additional sources. The paper asserts that it is very difficult to establish a positive racial identity when one s race is constantly disparaged by society as a whole, and this has made both protagonists extremely hostile.
Bibliography lists five sources.
A 6 page look at the way Susan Glaspell, John Updike, William Faulkner, and Guy de Maupassant build realistic and believable characters in their short fiction. Bibliography lists 8 sources. A 5 page paper using Henry James' short story 'A Mirror of Consciousness' as a springing-off point to show how a character's participation in an event which creates a conflict for him, and his response to that event, teaches us not only about the character but about ourselves. The writer primarily discusses 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner as examples of this. No additional sources cited.