Following are links to two sample essays. The first, by Margaret Peel, has no secondary sources. Peel is interpreting Langston Hughes’s poem “Ballad of the Landlord.” The second essay, by Dan Larson, uses secondary sources. The short story on which the paper is based is Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers.”
Margaret Peel, “Opposing Voices in ‘Ballad of the Landlord’”
Dan Larson, “The Transformation of Mrs. Peters: An Analysis of ‘A Jury of Her Peers’”