Flannery O'Connor / Life & Works
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In 5 pages, the writer discusses Flannery O'Connor's life, her style, and her place in the literary world. Flannery O'Connor was born Mary Flannery O'Connor. O'Connor wrote a collection of short stories, 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'. Her novels were 'Wise Blood' and 'The Violent Bear It Away'. Posthumously published were 'Mystery and Manners', a collection of essays and lectures, and 'Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories'. The latter included her most famous story, 'Everything That Rises Must Converge', which was awarded the National Book Award for fiction. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor /Theme And Symbolism
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5 pages in length. 'I suspect that most of you have been telling stories all your lives ' is the assumption Flannery O'Connor makes in her lecture entitled Writing Short Stories. For it is difficult for O'Connor to fathom that people perceive writing fiction as a chore, when it is something she achieves as though it were of no effort whatsoever. Her main points to writing good fiction involve the use of symbolism and theme, which the writer compares and contrasts between two of O'Connor's works: Good Country People and Everything that Rises Must Converge. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find / Symbolism of The Trees
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In 5 pages the author discusses why the tress symbolize the fate of the family in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor. Trees are very symbolic. They have many meanings depending on how one looks at them and what connotation is given them. Trees are symbols of both good and evil, and of life and death. No other sources cited.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find'
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A 4 page paper discussing the contrasts between the Old South and the New South in Flannery O'Connor's short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard To Find' / Foreshadowing & Theme
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A 14 page paper showing how foreshadowing both increases suspense as the story unfolds and underscores the story's theme, makes its ending seem completely inevitable. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People'
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A 5 page critical essay which examines Flannery O'Connor's 1955 short story, 'Good Country People' and how it reflects the techniques and themes of the modern literary period. Specifically considered are how the story deals with the major subjects of nature, religion, individualism vs. social responsibility, love, realism and the grotesque aspects of human nature. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People'/ Anti-Humanism
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A 4 page paper examining Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' from a theological standpoint. The paper asserts that to attempt to analyze O'Connor's fiction from a humanistic standpoint is to miss its entire point - that the pivotal moments in our lives occur with an experience of a breakthrough to Christian consciousness. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'Greenleaf' / Violent Workings of Grace
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A 5 page paper showing how O'Connor develops her themes of grace and redemption through the ornery character of Mrs. May in this short story. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'Greenleaf'/ The May Farm
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A 5 page paper that considers what will happen to the May family's farm after the death of Mrs. May in Flannery O'Connor's Greenleaf. This paper reflects upon the role that family order plays in designing lifestyle and the problematic elements in interpersonal relationships. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation' / Active Voice
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This 3 page essay discusses a specific passage from Flannery O'Connor's Revelation (pp. 414) that illustrates active voice and uses language to convey meaning and mood. No additional sources cited.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation' / Analysis
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A 5 page paper discussing O'Connor's last short story. Written under the influence of O'Connor's knowledge of the progress of her terminal disease, 'Revelation' deals even more with condemnation and redemption than her other works, even they also are known for the same underlying messages. A vision of the entrance into Heaven of the throngs of believers underlines the real, rather than perceived, shortcomings of the self-righteous and unforgiving main character. No additional sources cited.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation' / Union Of Opposites
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A 7 page paper discussing O'Connor's use of simultaneous but conflicting states of being in her short story, and in her work as a whole. The paper breaks down some of the difficult theological concepts in 'Revelation,'and shows how it works on two levels at the same time. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood'
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A 5 page essay covering various topics and issues in O'Connor's 'Wise Blood.' The writer discusses Hazel's 'religious' beliefs, personal background, etc.; Also explored are Enoch Emory's 'wise blood,' the characters of Sabbath Hawks, Hoover Shoat, etc; No other sources cited.
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Flannery O’Connor’s “The Artificial Nigger”
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A 9 page overview and summary of key elements O’Connor’s classic work. The writer is particularly concerned with the way this novel inverts a racist symbol into an emblem of antiracist redemption. Bibliography cited 5 sources.
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Political Incorrectness In The Works Of Flannery O'Connor
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An 8 page paper looking at three short stories: 'A Good Man is Hard To Find,' 'Good Country People,' and 'Everything That Rises Must Converge.' The paper argues that in her fiction, O'Connor tries to show how craven and worthless and ugly and stupid we are without the benefit of the grace of God. She chooses as her victims people about whom our society feels especially protective -- widows, children, the disabled -- simply because no one is exempt. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Religion In The Works Of Flannery O'Connor
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A 10 page paper showing the religious references in three of this twentieth-century Southern writer's stories: 'A Good Man is Hard To Find,' 'Good Country People,' and 'The River.' The paper argues that the intrinsic violence of much of O'Connor's work comes from her unusual interpretation of the working out of God's grace in the world. Bibliography lists seven sources including book.
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William Butler Yeats and Flannery O'Connor / Literary Criticism
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A 5 page paper critiquing a literary criticism article by Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet, in which Blythe and Sweet compare O'Connor's story 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find' with William Butler Yeats' 'The Second Coming.' The paper concludes that there is really very little valid basis for comparison, due to the differing literary outlooks of the writers themselves. No sources except critical article and O'Connor's book.
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Women in Modern Southern Literature
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A 9 page paper on the changing role of women in Southern literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century. The paper observes that the Southern woman conceals beneath her society's valuation of her as helpless a unique ability to navigate the waters of her culture. Works covered are Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding; Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard To Find; Walker Percy's Lancelot; Peter Taylor's A Summons to Memphis; and Kaye Gibbons' Ellen Foster. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Works Of Flannery O'Connor / Emotional Intent Through Racism
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8 pages in length. The fictional works of Flannery O'Connor elicit several levels of emotion within the weave of racism and prejudice. Two of the author's short stories -- Everything That Rises Must Converge and Judgement Day -- reflect just such a backdrop in their attempts to demonstrate the absurdity of such narrow-mindedness. The writer compares and contrasts the two stories with respect to their representation of racial intolerance.
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'The Great Gatsby' / Expression of Modernism
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A 5 page research paper that explores a few passages F. Scott Fitzgerald uses to implicate modernism as a destructive force. The writer focuses on the character of Tom Buchanan and his body as an allegorical method of expressing modernism, as well as Fitzgerald's sense of loss for southern gentility. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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F. Scott Fitgerald's 'The Beautiful and the Damned'
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This 4 page report discusses 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel written in 1922. The writer's primary focus is on how this novel, like 'The Great Gatsby,' serves as an example of the American dream gone wrong. Bibliography lists only the book itself as a source.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald / Disposable Morality in 'Tender is the Night'
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An 11 page paper dealing with the theme of Dick Diver's moral decline in Fitzgerald's novel. In order to build the writer's thesis, Diver's personality, relationship to other characters, and collapsed value system are among the many variables discussed. Bibliography lists 7 supporting critical sources.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald / How Three of his Characters Represent His Own Characteristics, Aspirations, & Experiences
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In 5 pages the author discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald and a comparison of him to the protagonists in 3 of his novels. Amory Blaine is the protagonist of 'This Side of Paradise.' Jay Gatsby is the protagonist of 'The Great Gatsby.' Monroe Stahr is the protagonist of 'The Love of the Last Tycoon.' Although all of these are fictional characters, these three men represent the characteristics, aspirations, and experiences of their author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In many ways Fitzgerald wrote himself into his classic and/or tragic heroes. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Great Gatsby' / Changing Values
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A 5 page research paper on F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of the character Tom Buchanan to reflect the corruption of America in terms of Big Business and racism. The writer argues that Buchanan is only one of the characters which reflect Fitzgerald's sense of a being 'last in a line' of American gentlemen. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Great Gatsby' / Corrupt Vision Of The American Dream
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This 5 page report discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel 'The Great Gatsby' and explains the ways in which Gatsby presents a twisted and corrupted version of the 'great American dream.' No additional sources cited.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender is the Night' --Loss of the Dream
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A 9 page paper on this novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The writer explores the themes of incest and moral decline as they relate to the facade of the American Dream. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' / Character Sketch of Nick Carraway
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A 5 page paper which provides a character sketch of Nick Carraway, the narrator and protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' / Dr. T.J. Eckelburg & Daisy Buchanan
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A 5 page paper discussing the symbolism of the optometrist's billboard in The Great Gatsby. The writer makes a comparison between the amoral Daisy Buchanan and the unfeeling, unmoving doctor painted in the billboard, and observes that lack of values becomes, in and of itself, a negative value. Bibliography lists five sources.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' / Gatsby's Desire for Daisy
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A 7 page essay exploring why Gatsby had such an obsessive desire for Daisy. The writer purports that Gatsby began by pursuing an ideal, not the real woman. In fact, he could not recognize the type of person she had become since they last saw each other. Gatsby lives in a dream world and Daisy is part of that dream. As the novel progresses, however, Gatsby's feelings change. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' / Gatsby's Search For Himself
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A 5 page analysis of Gatsby and his true identity. While having come from a poor background, in comparison to Daisy's, he became the incredibly wealthy man we see in the beginning of the story. Because he is wealthy by no means has changed his character or his desires. Everyone in the story is driven by some unforeseen force that leads them to behave in such a manner that would indicate they were somehow not in touch with reality. Wealth itself, being the main issue of the story, does not make for mental stability or a happy ending. No additional sources cited.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' / Settings
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A 3 page essay on the use of setting and how they influence the characters in the novel and what impact settings have on the novel as a whole. No additional sources cited.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' / The American Dream
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A 6 page paper looking at F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novel in terms of its indictment of the American Dream. Through a deep analysis of the novel's symbolism, it shows how the novel's characters are seduced by the mistaken belief that money equals self-worth. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby': Materialism
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5 pages in length. The writer discusses the concept of materialism in 'The Great Gatsby,' as well as addresses issues of style, character and plot. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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F.Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender is the Night'
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A 7 page paper on this classic novel. The writer focuses on Dick Diver, the protagonist and priestly/father figure of the novel, and how he relates to the other characters. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Fitzgerald's Gatsby
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A five page character study of the protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' in terms of the way his characterization relates to the novel's theme. The paper asserts that Gatsby -- like the 'flapper' society in which Fitzgerald himself lived -- had abandoned the ethics of the previous generation and followed only the rubric of the American Dream. No additional sources.
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Gatsby, Loman, and the American Dream
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A 5 page look at these two characters from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The paper shows how both characters illustrate the falseness of the belief that charisma means more than ability; appearance means more than reality; ruthlessness means more than ethics; and success is everything. No additional sources.
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Nick Carraway's Role in Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'
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A five page paper looking at F. Scott Fitzgerald's unusual choice of a narrator in this novel. Nick Carraway is not a protagonist in the novel, yet his very distance from the heart of the story enables us to learn a moralistic lesson from the tale in a way that wouldn't have been possible if the tale had been told from either of the protagonists' points of view. No additional sources.
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The Fitzgerald Woman and her Man
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A six page paper defining the stock female and male protagonists of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works. The paper observes that the male is the locus of the novels, but he always defines himself in terms of his ideal woman; the female is the locus of most of the stories, and defines herself in terms of herself. Particular works examined are “The Great Gatsby,” “Tender is the Night,” “This Side of Paradise,” “The Last Tycoon,” “Winter Dreams,” and “The Ice Palace.” Bibliography lists five sources.
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The Great Gatsby and The American Dream:
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The American Dream is a fairly nebulous concept that is exemplified by a number of American ideals. The story of Horatio Alger is indicative of what the American Dream stands for economic success through hard work and an innovative outlook on capitalism. Stability, security and family values are signified in the suburban lifestyle that is considered uniquely American. This 7 page paper argues that The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses the excesses and exaggerated lifestyle of the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, to criticize the inherent motivations necessary to acquire the American Dream. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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The Growth of the Narrator in “Housekeeping” and “The Great Gatsby”
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A six page paper comparing the narrator of Marilynne Robinson’s novel “Housekeeping” with that of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” The paper looks at the way the two establish their own individuality through their connection to the protagonists. No additional sources.
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The World Of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A 5 page research paper that gives a brief look at the work of Fitzgerald as a whole while attempting to explain why Fitzgerald's reputation flourishes despite that fact that his only work of critical acclaim is The Great Gatsby. The writer demonstrates that this may have more to do with the critics then with the actual merits of Fitzgerald's work. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' / Corrupting The American Dream
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A 4 page paper that argues the importance of the theme of corruption of the American Dream in F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel. The writer suggests that the dichotomy created by the characterizations of Nick and the Wilsons in comparison with the lifestyles of Gatsby and the Buchanans is significant to the theme of corruption. Both Gatsby and the Buchanans represent social groups hoping to achieve prosperity and social acceptance. But this same goal is also their undoing and the disparity between these characters and Nick, as well as the Wilson's creates an ironic portrayal.
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A Worn Path
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5 pages in length. Discusses at length the short story "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty. When we first meet Phoenix Jackson in "A Worn Path" we are immediately assailed with the knowledge that she is an ancient and extremely poor woman making her way through the pinewoods. With a red rag upon her head and a cane made from an umbrella, we suspect she is not a well-to-do person. Further evidence of this fact is revealed upon learning her apron is made of bleached sugar sacks. Although the story seems rather straightforward at first glance, with a little more insight we will see there is much to be revealed about Phoenix Jackson. Phoenix Jackson walks a worn path and overcomes obstacles and adversity to reach her goal. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Character Comparison / Novels of Weltey and K.A. Porter
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6 page comparison of the protagonist characters in Eudora Weltey's 'A Worn Path' and Katherine Anne Porter's 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.' No bibliography.
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Eudora Welty -- Lack Of Communication In Her Fiction
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A 5 page paper showing how lack of interpersonal communication is a common theme in Welty's short stories. The paper particularly looks at the stories Death of a Traveling Salesman, A Worn Path, Why I Live at the P.O., and The Hitch-hikers. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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