‘A Life’ by Buddhadeva Bose: Short Story Analysis ‘A Life’ by the famous twentieth-century Bengali writer Buddhadeva Bose is the story of one man’s quest to write a dictionary of Bengali words. The man in question is Gurudas Bhattacharya Vachaspati, the senior-most teacher or professor of Sanskrit. The seed for the idea of the Bengali dictionary was sown the day he was … [Read more...] about ‘A Life’ by Buddhadeva Bose: Short Story Analysis
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‘A Lecture Tour’ by Knut Hamsun: Short Story Analysis
‘A Lecture Tour’ by Knut Hamsun: Short Story Analysis ‘A Lecture Tour’ is a hilarious story about a man of literature, likely the author Knut Hamsun himself, who is out to give a lecture on a literary figure that no one wants to hear about. The protagonist’s name is not revealed in the story. What is revealed is that he was presumptuous, a master in literature, and had … [Read more...] about ‘A Lecture Tour’ by Knut Hamsun: Short Story Analysis
‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Short Story Analysis
‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Short Story Analysis ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ is an American Gothic story of a Puritan village in New England named Milford. It is a tale about the mysterious and odious black veil that their parson wears. One Sunday morning the parson comes out of his house with his face covered in a veil made of two folds of … [Read more...] about ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Short Story Analysis
‘The Second Death’ by Graham Greene: Short Story Analysis
‘The Second Death’ by Graham Greene: Short Story Analysis ‘The Second Death’ has a lot of direct and indirect references to two miracles of Lord Jesus Christ. One miracle is concerning the cure of the widow’s only son and the other is of the healing of the blind man. The references to the gospel of Saint Luke and then Saint Mark are as follows: “Soon afterward he went … [Read more...] about ‘The Second Death’ by Graham Greene: Short Story Analysis
‘The Mezzotint’ by M. R. James: Short Story Analysis
‘The Mezzotint’ by M. R. James: Short Story Analysis ‘The Mezzotint’ is a story of a poacher called Gawdy who was framed by a squire for killing a keeper of his estate. Gawdy is hung to death, but that is not the end of him. He returns in a terrible ghoulish form to kidnap the squire’s only infant son. Seemingly, Gawdy didn’t want to be killed because he was the last … [Read more...] about ‘The Mezzotint’ by M. R. James: Short Story Analysis