Short Stories for Students_ Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories (Short Stories for Students, Vol 12) ( PDFDrive )

Nationality lEthnicitv Index

The Revolt of 'Mother': V4 Malamud, Bernard The Spinoza of Market
Gaines, Ernest The Magic Barrel: V8 Street: V12

The Sky is Gray: V5 Mason, Bobbie Ann Sontag, Susan
Gardner, John Residents and Transients: V8 The Way We Live Now: VI0
Shiloh: V3
Redemption: V8 Stein, Gertrude
Gilchrist, Ellen McCullers, Carson Melanctha: V5
Wunderkind: V5
Victory Over Japan: V9 Steinbeck, John
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Melville, Herman The Chrysanthemums: V6
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Flight: V3
The Yellow Wallpaper: VI Wall Street: V3
Glasgow, Ellen Stockton, Frank R.
Morrison, Toni The Lady, or the Tiger?: V3
The Difference: V9 Recitatif: V5
Glaspell, Susan Tan, Amy
Nabokov, Vladimir Two Kinds: V9
A Jury of Her Peers: V3 A Guide to Berlin: V6
Harte, Bret Taylor, Peter
Gates, Joyce Carol A Spinster's Tale: V9
The Outcasts of Poker Flat: V3 How I Contemplated the World
Hawthorne, Nathaniel from the Detroit House of Thurber, James
Correction and Began My Life The Catbird Seat: VI0
The Minister's Black Veil: VI Over Again: V8 The Secret Life of Walter
My Kinsman, Major Where Are You Going, Where Mitty: VI
Have You Been?: VI
Molineux: VI1 Toomer, Jean
Young Goodman Brown: VI O'Brien, Tim Blood-Burning Moon: V5
Heinlein, Robert A. The Things They Carried: V5
Waldo: VI Twain, Mark
Hemingway, Ernest O'Connor, Flannery The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: V9 Everything That Rises Must Calaveras County: VI
Hills Like White Elephants: V6 Converge: V10 The Man That Corrupted
In Another Country: V8 A Good Man Is Hard to Find: V2 Hadleyburg: VI
The Short Happy Life of Francis The Life You Save May Be
Your Own: VI Updike, John
Macomber: VI A & P: V3
The Snows of Kilimanjaro: VI1 Olsen, Tillie
Hempel, Amy I Stand Here Ironing: VI Vonnegut, Kurt
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Harrison Bergeron: V5
Ozick, Cynthia
Is Buried: V2 The Pagan Rabbi: VI2 Walker, Alice
Henry, O. The Shawl: V3 Everyday Use: V2
Roselily: VI1
The Gift of the Magi: V2 Paley, Grace
Hughes, Langston A Conversation with My Warren, Robert Penn
Father: V3 Blackberry Winter: V8
The Blues I'm Playing: VI
Slave on the Block: V4 Parker, Dortothy Welty, Eudora
Hurston, Zora Neale Big Blonde: V5 Why I Live at the P.O.: V10
The Eatonville Anthology: VI A Worn Path: V2
The Gilded Six-Bits: V11 Phillips, Jayne Anne
Spunk: V6 Souvenir: V4 Wharton, Edith
Irving, Washington Pomegranate Seed: V6
The Devil and Tom Walker: VI Poe, Edgar Allan Roman Fever: VI
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: V8 The Cask of Amontillado: VI
Jackson, Shirley The Fall of the House of Wideman, John Edgar
The Lottery: VI Usher: V2 The Beginning of
James, Henry The Masque of the Red Homewood: VI2
The Beast in the Jungle: V6 Death: V8 Fever: V6
The Jolly Comer: V9 The Tell-Tale Heart: V4
Jewett, Sarah Orne Wolff, Tobias
A White Heron: V4 Porter, Katherine Anne In the Garden of the North
Kincaid, Jamaica Flowering Judas: V8 American Martyrs: V4
Girl: V7 The Jilting of Granny Say Yes: VI1
What I Have Been Doing Weatherall: VI
Wright, Richard
Lately: V5 Porter, Katherine Katherine The Man Who Lived
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Grave: VI1 Underground: V3
The Man Who Was Almost
On Discovery: V3 Roth, Philip a Man: V9
Le Guin, Ursula K. Goodbye, Columbus: V12
Antiguan
The Ones Who Walk Away from Silko, Leslie Marmon
Omelas: V2 Lullaby: V10 Kincaid, Jamaica
The Man to Send Rain Girl: VI
London,Jack Clouds: V8 What I Have Been Doing
To Build a Fire: VI Yellow Woman: V4 Lately: V5

Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Gimpel the Fool: V2

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Nationality/Ethnicity Index

Argentine Danish de Balzac, Honore
La Grande Breteche: V10
Borges, Jorge Luis Dinesen, Isak
The Garden of Forking Paths: V9 The Ring: V6 Flaubert, Gustave
Pierre Menard, Author of the Sorrow-Acre: V3 A Simple Heart: V6
Quixote: V4
Egyptian Maupassant, Guy de
Cortazar, Julio The Necklace: V4
Axolotl: V3 Mahfouz, Naguib
Haifa Day: V9 Merimee, Prosper
Asian American Mateo Falcone: V8
English
Kingston, Maxine Hong Sartre, Jean-Paul
On Discovery: V3 Bates, H. E. The Wall: V9
The Daffodil Sky: VI
Austrian German
Bowen, Elizabeth
Kafka, Franz The Demon Lover: V5 Mann, Thomas
A Hunger Artist: VI Death in Venice: V9
In the Penal Colony: V3 Carter, Angela Disorder and Early Sorrow: V4
The Bloody Chamber: V4
Canadian TheErlking:V\2 Haitian

Atwood, Margaret Clarke, Arthur C. Danticat, Edwidge
Rape Fantasies: V3 The Star: V4 Children of the Sea: VI

Mistry, Rohinton Conrad, Joseph Indian
Swimming Lessons: V6 Heart of Darkness: V\2
The Secret Sharer: VI Mistry, Rohinton
Mukherjee, Bharati Swimming Lessons: V6
The Management of Grief: VI Eliot, George
The Lifted Veil: V8 Mukherjee, Bharati
Munro, Alice The Management of Grief: VI
Boys and Girls: V5 Far, Sui Sin
Mrs. Spring Fragrance: V4 Narayan, R. K.
Chicano A Horse and Two Goats: V5
Galsworthy, John
Cisneros, Sandra The Japanese Quince: V3 Irish
Woman Hollering Creek: V3
Jacobs, W. W. Bowen, Elizabeth
Chilean The Monkey's Paw: V2 The Demon Lover: V5

Allende, Isabel Kipling, Rudyard Joyce, James
And of Clay Are We Mrs. Bathurst: V8 Araby: VI
Created: VI1 The Dead: V6
Lawrence, D. H.
Colombian Odour of Chrysanthemums: V6 O'Connor, Frank
The Rocking-Horse Winner: V2 Guests of the Nation: V5
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
The Handsomest Drowned Man in Lessing, Doris O'Flaherty, Liam
the World: VI Debbie and Julie: V12 The Wave: V5
A Very Old Man with Enormous Through the Tunnel: VI
Wings: V6 Trevor, William
Orwell, George The News from Ireland: V10
Cuban Shooting an Elephant: V4
Wilde, Oscar
Calvino, Italo Saki The Canterville Ghost: VI
The Feathered Ogre: V12 The Open Window. VI
Italian
Czech Sayers, Dorothy L.
Suspicion: VI2 Calvino, Italo
Kafka, Franz The Feathered Ogre: V12
A Hunger Artist: VI Wells, H. G.
In the Penal Colony: V3 The Door in the Wall: V3 Japanese
The Metamorphosis: V12
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville Mishima, Yukio
Kundera, Milan Jeeves Takes Charge: V10 Fountains in the Rain: V12
The Hitchhiking Game: V10 Swaddling Clothes: V5
Woolf, Virginia
Kew Gardens: V12 Naoya, Shiga
The New Dress: V4 Han's Crime: V5

Eurasian Jewish

Far, Sui Sin Babel, Isaac
Mrs. Spring Fragrance: V4 My First Goose: VI0

French

Camus, Albert
The Guest: V4

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Bellow, Saul New Zealander Pushkin, Alexander
Leaving the Yellow House: VI2 The Stationmaster: V9
Mansfield, Katherine
Berriault, Gina Bliss: V10 Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr
The Stone Boy. VI The Garden Party: V8 One Day in the Life of Ivan
Marriage a la Mode: VI1 Denisovich: V9
Kafka, Franz Miss Brill: V2
A Hunger Artist: V7 Tolstoy, Leo
In the Penal Colony: V3 Nigerian The Death of Ivan Ilych: V5
The Metamorphosis: V12
Achebe, Chinua Scottish
Malamud, Bernard Vengeful Creditor: V3
The Magic Barrel: V8 Doyle, Arthur Conan
Polish The Red-Headed League: V2
Ozick, Cynthia
The Pagan Rabbi: VI2 Conrad, Joseph Scott, Sir Walter
The Shawl: V3 Heart of Darkness: VI2 Wandering Willie's Tale: V10
The Secret Sharer: VI
Paley, Grace South African
A Conversation with My Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Father: V3 Gimpel the Fool: V2 Gordimer, Nadine
The Spinoza of Market The Train from Rhodesia: V2
Singer, Isaac Bashevis Street: V12
Gimpel the Fool: V2 Head, Bessie
The Spinoza of Market Russian Snapshots of a Wedding: V5
Street: V12
Babel, Isaac Mphahlele, Es'kia (Ezekiel)
Stein, Gertrude My First Goose: V10 Mrs. Plum: VI1
Melanctha: V5
Chekhov, Anton Welsh
Native American The Lady with the Pet Dog: V5
Dahl, Roald
Silko, Leslie Marmon Dostoevsky, Fyodor Lamb to the Slaughter: V4
Lullaby: V10 The Grand Inquisitor: V8
The Man to Send Rain West Indian
Clouds: V8 Gogol, Nikolai
Story teller: Vll The Overcoat: VI Kincaid, Jamaica
Yellow Woman: V4 Girl: VI
Nabokov, Vladimir What I Have Been Doing
A Guide to Berlin: V6 Lately: V5

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SubjectITheme Index

*Boldface terms appear as subheads Alcoholism, Drugs, and Drug What We Talk About When We
in Themes section. Addiction Talk About Love: 298-299

1950s That Evening Sun: 290 Appearance Vs. Reality
Leaving the Yellow House: What We Talk About When We Heart of Darkness: 122, 124-126
160-162
Talk About Love: 297-298, Appearances and Reality
1960s 302-303, 306-309 Suspicion: 261
Fountains in the Rain: 73-74 Alienation and Loneliness
Leaving the Yellow House: 158 Asia
1980s The Spinoza of Market Fountains in the Rain: 68,
What We Talk About When We Street: 242 72-75, 78-79
Talk About Love: 296, Alienation at Work
303-304 The Metamorphosis: 193 Authoritarianism
Alienation The Feathered Ogre: 56-57
A The Spinoza of Market Street:
239, 242-243 B
Abandonment Allegory
Debbie and Julie: 17-19, The Feathered Ogre: 59-61 Beauty
22-23, 27 The Metamorphosis: 206-207, The Feathered Ogre: 49-50,
211 54-56
Abortion The Pagan Rabbi: 236-237 The Pagan Rabbi: 228-231
That Evening Sun: 292 Ambiguity That Evening Sun: 290
The Beginning ofHomewood: 1
Abuse American Northeast Betrayal
What We Talk About When We Goodbye, Columbus: 84-85, The Metamorphosis: 193
Talk About Love: 297, 90-93
299, 301, 303 The Lesson: 178-179 Black Arts Movement
American South The Lesson: 176, 179
Adulthood The Lesson: 177-178
The Feathered Ogre: 62-63 That Evening Sun: 276, 278-279 Bloomsbury Group
That Evening Sun: 276, 278-280 American Southwest Kew Gardens: 133, 141
Leaving the Yellow House:
Adventure and Exploration 156, 160-161 Buddhism
Heart of Darkness: 127-128 Anger Heart of Darkness: 126
Fountains in the Rain: 78-82
Africa The Lesson: 173, 175-177, C
Heart of Darkness: 111 -112, 116- 183,186
122, 126-128 That Evening Sun: 289. 292-294 Capitalist Exploitation
Suspicion: 263 Heart of Darkness: 114

Afrocentricity Choices and Consequences
The Beginning of Homewood: 4 Debbie and Julie: 22

Alcoholism City Life
What We Talk About When We The Beginning of
Talk About Love: 301 Homewood: 12, 14

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Leaving the Yellow House: Depression and Melancholy The Spinoza of Market Street:
155, 161-162 The Metamorphosis: 201, 240-242, 245, 247-248, 251
203, 205
Civil Rights Suspicion: 263-264
The Lesson: 177 Description Evil
Heart of Darkness: 121
Civilization and the Primitive Kew Gardens: 149-150 The Feathered Ogre: 49,
Heart of Darkness: 114 The Pagan Rabbi: 231 53, 55, 58-61
That Evening Sun: 284,286
Class Divisions The Metamorphosis: 201,
Goodbye, Columbus: 88 Despair 205-206
What We Talk About When We
Colonialism Talk About Love:297, Suspicion: 262-263
Heart of Darkness: 112,117-119 300-301, 304 Exploitation

Coming of Age Detective Fiction Heart of Darkness: 112,116,
That Evening Sun: 276 Suspicion: 258, 264-265, 270 118,127-128

Communication Devil F
What We Talk About When We The Feathered Ogre: 51,
Talk About Love; 300 53, 59-61 Families
That Evening Sun: 292,294 Goodbye, Columbus: 88
Competition and Games
Goodbye, Columbus: 89 Dialogue Family Life
That Evening Sun: 284-287 Debbie and Julie: 24
Control and Self-Control What We Talk About When We Goodbye, Columbus: 92-93,
Fountains in the Rain: 72 Talk About Love: 302 104, 107

Courage and Bravery Divorce Fantasy
The Feathered Ogre: 53 What We Talk About When We Goodbye, Columbus: 89
Talk About Love: 297, 301
Courage Fate and Chance
The Feathered Ogre: 49-50, Dreams and Visions The Feathered Ogre: 61-63
54-55, 60-63 Fountains in the Rain: 77-79 The Pagan Rabbi: 233-234
Goodbye, Columbus: 104, 107
Crime Heart of Darkness: 127-129 Father-Son Antagonism
Suspicion: 262 The Metamorphosis: 202-206 The Metamorphosis: 193
The Spinoza of Market
Crime and Criminals Street: 255-256 Fear and Terror
The Beginning of Goodbye, Columbus: 99-100,
Home-wood: 1-5, 8-12 E 103-104
Heart of Darkness: 114, 116,
Crisis in Faith Emotional Transformation 121-122, 125
The Pagan Rabbi: 217 Fountains in the Rain: 71 The Spinoza of Market Street:
251-252,255
Cruelty Emotions That Evening Sun: 273-280, 283-
Heart of Darkness: 112, 114, Debbie and Julie: 17, 21-27, 31 284, 291-295
116, 118,127-128 The Erlking: 42, 44, 47
That Evening Sun: 290-294 Fountains in the Rain: 70- Feminism
72, 77-82 The Erlking: 39-40
Curiosity Goodbye, Columbus: 101,
Fountains in the Rain: 68-72 105-106 Film
Kew Gardens: 138-139 Kew Gardens: 151 Goodbye, Columbus: 84, 91-92
The Lesson: 186 Heart of Darkness: 117
D The Metamorphosis: 204 What We Talk About When We
The Spinoza of Market Street: Talk About Love: 302
Darkness and Violence 250, 252-254
That Evening Sun: 277 That Evening Sun: 283,291-292 Folklore
What We Talk About When We The Erlking: 33-34, 38-45
Death and Mourning Talk About Love: SOS- The Feathered Ogre: 53-59,
The Pagan Rabbi: 216 SOS, 311 62-67
The Pagan Rabbi: 232-233
Death Escaping
The Erlking: 43-45 The Metamorphosis: 194 Foreshadowing
Fountains in the Rain: 74-75 The Pagan Rabbi: 232-234
Heart of Darkness: 113, 115-118, Europe
124-126, 129-131 Debbie and Julie: 17-19, Forgiveness
Leaving the Yellow House: 22-25, 29 The Pagan Rabbi: 218
158-159, 163 The Feathered Ogre: 56-57
The Metamorphosis: 188, 190, Heart of Darkness: 116-119 Forgiveness
194-195,201,203-207,210 Kew Gardens: 138-141,144 The Pagan Rabbi: 215, 217-218
The Pagan Rabbi: 213-220, 234 The Metamorphosis: 195-198
The Spinoza of Market Street: Freedom and Bondage
241-242, 245, 247 The Beginning ofHomewood: 4
Suspicion: 263-264
That Evening Sun: 286-289 Freedom and Entrapment
The Erlking: 36
Deception
Fountains in the Rain: 11 Freedom
The Beginning of
Deception and Betrayal Homewood: 1,3-5,8-9
Suspicion: 262

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G The Metamorphosis: 206 That Evening Sun: 288, 293-294
Knowledge and Ignorance
Gender Roles /
Kew Gardens: 138 Identity Debbie and Julie: 21

Gender Roles Leaving the Yellow House: 158 L
The Erlking: 37 Ignorance
Landscape
Generosity The Metamorphosis: 204, 206 The Erlking: 34-39, 47
The Feathered Ogre: 58, 60-61 That Evening Sun: 290-292 The Feathered Ogre: 49-51
Imagery andSymbolism Goodbye, Columbus: 103-104
Ghost The Beginning of Heart of Darkness: 111-114,
Heart of Darkness: 124-126 117,127-131
Kew Gardens: 143 Homewood: 11-12 Leaving the Yellow House: 160,
The Pagan Rabbi: 227-228 The Erlking: 43-45 163-165, 169-170
Suspicion: 270 Goodbye, Columbus: 89-90, 96- The Metamorphosis: 207, 209
That Evening Sun: 282-283 The Pagan Rabbi: 227-230,
97, 103, 106 236-237
God Heart of Darkness: 114, 116,
Goodbye, Columbus: 95-96, 106 Law and Order
The Metamorphosis: 208-210 123-124, 128-131 The Beginning of
The Pagan Rabbi: 221-224, Kew Gardens: 151 Homewood: 3, 5, 9-12
227-232 Leaving the Yellow House: 160 Heart of Darkness: 130
The Spinoza of Market The Metamorphosis: 188, 195, The Pagan Rabbi: 222-225,
Street: 250-253 228-231
198,201-203,206,208-210 That Evening Sun: 274, 276, 279
Good Deeds The Pagan Rabbi: 226, 232-234
The Feathered Ogre: 54 That Evening Sun: 287 Lies
What We Talk About When We Heart of Darkness: 115
Good versus Evil
The Feathered Ogre: 53 Talk About Love: 305-307 Literary Criticism
Imagination The Beginning of Homewood: 1
Greed
Heart of Darkness: 112, 114, 116 Goodbye, Columbus: 89, 92 Literary Terms
The Pagan Rabbi: 226-227 Debbie and Julie: 22
Guilt Insanity
That Evening Sun: 289-290, 294 The Lesson: 173, 175-177 Loneliness and Alienation
The Spinoza of Market Kew Gardens: 137
H
Street: 256 Loneliness
Happiness and Gaiety Irony Debbie and Julie: 18
Goodbye, Columbus: 103-106 Heart of Darkness: 127-129
The Metamorphosis: 199,201 Goodbye, Columbus: 95-96 Kew Gardens: 138-139
Heart of Darkness: 122, 129-130 Leaving the Yellow House: 159
Hatred The Spinoza of Market The Metamorphosis: 188,
The Metamorphosis: 188, 190, 194, 199
193, 195-197.202-204 Street: 254-256 The Spinoza of Market Street:
Suspicion: 263 242-243, 252
Heroism That Evening Sun: 277-278,
The Feathered Ogre: 53 Love
283-284, 288 Fountains in the Rain: 70
Heroism Isolation and Self-Sacriflce What We Talk About When We
The Feathered Ogre: 49, Talk About Love: 299
53-54, 60-66 The Metamorphosis: 194
Heart of Darkness: 129, 131 Love and Intimacy
The Metamorphosis: 201, J Debbie and Julie: 22
204-205 Jewish Culture and History
Love and Passion
History The Spinoza of Market Debbie and Julie: 22, 25-27
The Erlking: 38, 40 Street: 242 The Erlking: 36-38, 44-45
The Feathered Ogre: 55, 57-58 Fountains in the Rain: 71-72
Kew Gardens: 141, 143-144 Judaism Goodbye, Columbus: 96-107
The Lesson: 177 Goodbye, Columbus: 84-86, Kew Gardens: 149-151
The Pagan Rabbi: 222, 225-226 89-101 The Metamorphosis: 210
That Evening Sun: 276, 278-279 The Pagan Rabbi: 214, 216-237 The Pagan Rabbi: 226-230,
The Spinoza of Market Street: 233-234
Honor 240-242, 245-253 The Spinoza of Market Street:
The Feathered Ogre: 58 240-242, 253
Heart of Darkness: 127-129 K What We Talk About When We
Talk About Love: 296-
Humiliation and Degradation Killers and Killing 301,306-311
The Lesson: 185-186 The Pagan Rabbi: 214,
The Metamorphosis: 202-204 231,233-234 Love, Sex and Relationships
Suspicion: 260-262 Goodbve, Columbus: 88
Humor
Fountains in the Rain: 71-72
Goodbye, Columbus: 85, 93,
95-101

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Loyalty The Spinoza of Market Nature and Its Meaning
The Feathered Ogre: 53 Street: 247 The Erlking: 36

Loyalty That Evening Sun: 295 Nietzschean Philosophy
The Feathered Ogre: 53, Motherhood Heart of Darkness: 123
58, 60-61
The Spinoza of Market Street: Debbie and Julie: 17-19, North America
240, 242-244 22, 24-27 Fountains in the Rain: 73-74
What We Talk About When We The Lesson: 172,177-179
Talk About Love: 310-311 That Evening Sun: 286, The Spinoza of Market
289, 291-294 Street: 245-246
M That Evening Sun: 280
Murder
Marriage Suspicion: 262-263 Nostalgia
The Feathered Ogre: 59, 61 Goodbye, Columbus: 89
Goodbye, Columbus: 84-85, 89, Music
91, 100, 103-107 The Erlking: 34-36, 39 Novel
The Pagan Rabbi: 217 The Metamorphosis: 189-190, The Feathered Ogre: 56-58
The Spinoza of Market Street: 204, 206 Goodbye, Columbus: 91, 93-
239, 241-244, 250, 252-256 The Spinoza of Market Street: 94, 109-110
What We Talk About When We 239-240, 243-256 Heart of Darkness: 130-131
Talk About Love: 301, 303 That Evening Sun: 278-279, That Evening Sun: 285
284, 287-288 What We Talk About When We
Marriage and Divorce Talk About Love: 302
What We Talk About When We Mystery and Intrigue
Talk About Love: 300 Heart of Darkness: 128-131 Novella
Goodbye, Columbus: 84-85, 92
Marriage and Family Myths and Legends
The Pagan Rabbi: 217 The Feathered Ogre: 49-51, Nurturance
54-66 Debbie and Julie: 25, 27
Masculinity The Pagan Rabbi: 225-227,
Fountains in the Rain: 77-79 230, 232-234 o

Middle Class N Old Age
Goodbye, Columbus: 84-85, 90, Kew Gardens: 135, 137-139
92, 102-103 Narration The Pagan Rabbi: 233-234
The Beginning of
Middle East Homewood: 1-2, 5-12 p
Goodbye, Columbus: 109-110 Debbie and Julie: 30-31
Leaving the Yellow House: 165 The Erlking: 35-39, 45, 47-48 Pagan
The Pagan Rabbi: 219-220 The Feathered Ogre: 56-58, The Pagan Rabbi: 213, 215, 217-
65-66 219, 223-226, 229-234
Miracle Fountains in the Rain: 82
The Spinoza of Market Goodbye, Columbus: 85, 88-90 Painting
Street: 254-256 Heart of Darkness: 112, 114-117, Goodbye, Columbus: 89, 92,
123, 126-131 102-103
Modernism Kew Gardens: 135, 137-140, Kew Gardens: 135, 139
The Beginning of 146, 149-152
Homewood: 5, 7 The Lesson: 171-172 Perception
The Pagan Rabbi: 213-219, Goodbye, Columbus: 102-104,
Monarchy 223-237 107
The Erlking: 43-44 That Evening Sun: 274-276, 279- Heart of Darkness: 122, 124-126
The Feathered Ogre: 50-51, 284, 287-290 Kew Gardens: 147, 152
54-57, 60-63 What We Talk About When We
Goodbye, Columbus: 99 Talk About Love: 297- Persecution
Heart of Darkness: 116-117 299, 306-309 The Erlking: 46-48

Money and Economics Nature Perseverance
Fountains in the Rain: 72-74 The Pagan Rabbi: 218 Leaving the Yellow House:
Kew Gardens: 137-139 166-168
Leaving the Yellow House: Nature
159-160 The Erlking: 36, 38, 43 Personal Identity
The Lesson: 173-180, 185-186 Fountains in the Rain: 78, 80 The Erlking: 34, 36, 38-40
The Metamorphosis: 193, 196 Goodbye, Columbus: 103, 105 Goodbye, Columbus: 89-90, 95-
Heart of Darkness: 119, 122, 128 96, 103-107
Morals and Morality Kew Gardens: 138-139, 146-147 The Pagan Rabbi: 218-219
The Beginning of Homewood: 7-9 Leaving the Yellow House:
The Feathered Ogre: 58-61 163-165 Personality Traits
Heart of Darkness: 115, The Metamorphosis: 207 Fountains in the Rain: 75
118,127-131 The Pagan Rabbi: 213, 215, 217-
The Metamorphosis: 204, 219, 222-225, 228-234 Philosophical Ideas
206-207 Goodbye, Columbus: 102, 105
The Pagan Rabbi: 221-222, Heart of Darkness: 123-124
229-234 The Pagan Rabbi: 215-218,
225-234
The Spinoza of Market Street:
240, 242-244, 247-252

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Philosophy versus Religion Leaving the Yellow House: Leaving the Yellow House:
The Spinoza of Market 161-162 155, 160, 162
Street: 242
The Lesson: 173, 175-180 The Lesson: 183-185
Plants That Evening Sun: 279-280, The Spinoza of Market Street:
Kew Gardens: 134-136, 140-143,
147-148, 151-152 289-290, 293 242, 244, 247
Racism and Prejudice That Evening Sun: 286-288
Plot What We Talk About When We
The Feathered Ogre: 49, 55 Heart of Darkness: 112,
Kew Gardens: 142-143, 146-147 114-115, 119 Talk About Love: 302, 304
Leaving the Yellow House: 162 Sex and Sex Roles
Suspicion: 270, 272 Leaving the Yellow House:
161-162 The Erlking: 37
Point of View Sex and Sexuality
The Erlking: 34. 38 The Lesson: 177, 179
Fountains in the Rain: 77-79 That Evening Sun: 276-277, Debbie and Julie: 19,22-24
Goodbye, Columbus: 88, 90, 92 The Erlking: 34-43
Kew Gardens: 146, 150-151 280. 282-284 Fountains in the Rain: 70-
The Metamorphosis: 194 Realism
The Pagan Rabbi: 2\3, 218 72, 75-77
Suspicion: 262 Debbie and Julie: 21, 24 Goodbye, Columbus: 98-107
The Metamorphosis: 207 Sexuality
Politicians Recreation Fountains in the Rain: 70
The Lesson: 177-179 Goodbye, Columbus: 100 Sickness
Redemption through Passion That Evening Sun: 291
Politics The Spinoza of Market Sin
The Feathered Ogre: 56-57 Leaving the Yellow House:
Heart of Darkness: 112, 117-118 Street: 242
Kew Gardens: 140, 143-144 Religion and Religious Thought 164-165
The Lesson: 175, 177-179 The Metamorphosis: 209-210
Suspicion: 264 Goodbye, Columbus: 91, 93- The Pagan Rabbi: 227-229,
That Evening Sun: 276, 279 96, 105
233-234
Postmodernism Heart of Darkness: 125 Slavery
What We Talk About When We The Metamorphosis: 208, 210
Talk About Love: 303-304 The Pagan Rabbi: 217-218, 222- The Beginning of
Homewood: 1-2,5-12
Postwar Society 229, 232-233
The Feathered Ogre: 56-58 The Spinoza of Market Street: Heart of Darkness: 114, 116-118
Soul
Poverty 239-240, 247-250
Leaving the Yellow House: 159 Religious Works The Pagan Rabbi: 213, 215, 217,
224-226,229-231,234-236
Poverty and Wealth The Metamorphosis: 208-210
The Lesson: 174 The Pagan Rabbi: 223-225, Spiritual Leaders
The Feathered Ogre: 51, 53, 56
Poverty 228-230 The Pagan Rabbi: 213-235
The Lesson: 175-179 Resistance The Spinoza of Market
Street: 247-250
Prostitution The Lesson: 176
Debbie and Julie: 17-19, 22 Spirituality
That Evening Sun: 290-291 s Goodbye, Columbus: 96
Heart of Darkness: 124-125
Psychology and the Human Mind Satire The Pagan Rabbi: 215,217-219,
Debbie and Julie: \1, 24 Goodbye, Columbus: 98, 100, 102 222-223,231,233-235
The Erlking: 33-34. 37, 39 The Spinoza of Market
Heart of Darkness: 123-125 Science and Technology Street: 250
The Metamorphosis: 196-198 Fountains in the Rain: 80-82
The Pagan Rabbi: 219, 226, 231 Sports and the Sporting Life
The Spinoza of Market Search For Knowledge Goodbye, Columbus: 85, 89, 93,
Street: 256 The Feathered Ogre: 49-50, 97-99, 109
55,60-61
R Storms and WeatherConditions
Seizing Power Fountains in the Rain: 78-79, 82
Race The Metamorphosis: 194
The Lesson: 175 Strength
Self-knowledge Leaving the Yellow House:
Race and Racism Goodbye, Columbus: 89 166-168
Heart of Darkness: 115
Selfless Structure
Race Relations The Feathered Ogre: 58, 60-61 The Feathered Ogre: 64, 66
That Evening Sun: 276 The Metamorphosis: 194, Kew Gardens: 146-148
200-201 The Pagan Rabbi: 230
Race
Heart of Darkness: 115, 118-119 Sentimentality Suicide
Goodbye, Columbus: 89-90 The Pagan Rabbi: 213-218,
233-234
Setting That Evening Sun: 290, 292, 294
The Beginning ofHomewood: 5-7
Fountains in the Rain: 77-78
Goodbye, Columbus: 109-110
Heart of Darkness: 118-119

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Subject/Theme Index

T Trust Kew Gardens: 136-141, 144
Heart of Darkness: 124-125 The Metamorphosis: 203-204
The Cosmic and the Earthly The Pagan Rabbi: 221
The Spinoza of Market u The Spinoza of Market Street:
Street: 242
Ugliness 241-242,245
The Holocaust The Pagan Rabbi: 226, 229 Suspicion: 263-264
The Spinoza of Market Street: That Evening Sun: 279
242, 244-245 Uncertainty Wealth
The Metamorphosis: 204-206 The Lesson: 172-173, 176-177
The Modern World The Pagan Rabbi: 233-234 Western Hemisphere
Kew Gardens: 137 That Evening Sun: 290-292, 295 That Evening Sun: 279
Wildlife
The Natural World Understanding The Erlking: 33-39, 42-48
Kew Gardens: 138 Heart of Darkness: 122 The Metamorphosis: 205
World War I
Time and Change w The Spinoza of Market Street:
The Metamorphosis: 189-190,
197, 199-211 War, the Military, and Soldier Life 239, 241-242
The Feathered Ogre: 56-58 World War II
Tone Heart of Darkness: 117-118
What We Talk About When We Suspicion: 263-264
Talk About Love: 297-299

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