Essays on Fiction

A quiet story despite dealing with tragedy, “Hunters in the Snow”, by Tobias Wolff, depicts the intricacies of deceit. Wolff illustrates how Kenny, Tub, and Frank deceive themselves and each other for narcissistic reasons. This narcissism is how Wolff is capable of relaying the idea…

Claude Mckay’s Home to Harlem is a most popular cyclical novel, which is won the Harman Gold award for literature, Mckay is a famous Twentieth century African American writer, he is born in central Jmaica in 1889, to a black poor peasants parents, who is…

I chose to read this text as I knew Katherine Mansfield was a very famous author and I had heard great things about this particular text of hers.“The Fly”, by Katherine Mansfield, is a short story which can be understood best as social criticism of…

Isabella’s Painting is a fictional story that alludes to a real historical event. Back in the 1990’s, over $500 million dollars worth of precious paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The case has remained unsolved to this day and one…

What context does the poem established? Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu is a tragicomic novel, a joking farce, around three sisters in the Wang family living in Wang Family Village in country China: “Numerous rustic towns are populated basically by families with a similar surname.”…

There are two mice named Sniff and Scurry and two human beings who are the size of mice named Hem and Haw. They live in a maze and must continuously discover cheese as food to survive. The mice have an easy strategy. They check every…

Being sometimes an adult or rushing through childhood isn’t necessary the most wanted thing when you look back at your “old days”. Young people and specifically teenagers’ desires to be an adult as fast as they can and wants to be treated like a grown…

The short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence depicts a dysfunctional family whose thirst for money and the desire to uphold their social position eventually results in the death of the firstborn child. In How To Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively…

Woman Hollering Creek, Story of an Hour and A Rose for Miss Emily have many similarities with symbolism, characters, and societies expectation of women around that time period. With such dominant societal views concerning female gender roles, these three stories all have connections of how…

The overcoat is a short story written by Nikolai Gogol, a Russian writer. This book is about a man named Akakiy Akakievich, he was not poor but he did not have very good resources, he lived in St. Petersburg, and everyday he needed to go…