Fairy tales have always been told to us as children, they always seem to be a part of everyone’s childhood. When the narrator was asked to write a children’s story, she replied with a short story titled “Once Upon A Time”. Although the title is characteristic of a fairy tale, she leads the t...

As a social critic and prominent feminist in the United States of the late 1880’s, Charlotte Perkins Gilman had to overcome a lot of challenges. In the short story “the yellow wallpaper” Gilman once again defied society. The story is about a depressive woman who is socially cut off be...

Ever wondered why death sometimes brings us happiness. To some it may cause pain, to other tears of joy, but through it all people always go through one, joy or sorrow. Through "The Story of an Hour" we see how death brings joy to the life of a woman who has been unhappy all her life by her husbands...