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The Half-Skinned Steer by Annie Proulx Short Story Analysis
“The Half-Skinned Steer” by Annie Proulx is, as said by Mary Lee Settle “as real as a pickup truck, as ominous as a fairy tale.”
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Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose by Dr Seuss Analysis
Theo Geisel had a thing for antlers. In the mid-nineteen thirties, Theodor Geisel was a fledgling author and artist, operating as an illustrator for New York advertisement agencies. His father, superintendent of parks in Springfield, Mass., from time to time sent him antlers, expenditures and horns from deceased zoo animals. Geisel stored them in a […]
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Them Old Cowboy Songs by Annie Proulx Short Story Analysis
“Them Old Cowboy Songs” is a short story by Annie Proulx, included in Proulx’s 2008 collection Fine Just The Way It Is. Stories in the collection: Family ManI’ve Always Loved This PlaceThem Old Cowboy SongsThe Sagebrush KidThe Great DivideDeep-Blood-Greasy BowlSwamp MischiefTestimony of the DonkeyTits-Up In A Ditch In the short story “Them Old Cowboy Songs” […]