I've found the solution to somebody's story-identification question, and I'd like to write up an answer. What can I do to make my answer as helpful and high-quality as possible?
This post is a companion to Guidelines for good story-id questions?; both asking and answering are skills which can be...
Penelope is portrayed throughout the story to be virtuous when it comes to men, meaning that she holds out hope for her husband's safety 20 years after she saw him and had no other relationships in that time.
Odysseus on the other hand has romantic relationships with 2 people over his journey. ...
In Gene Wolfe's loose trilogy of novellas The Fifth Head of Cerberus, the middle story ("A Story" by John V. Marsch) is the one which gives us the most direct insight into the lives of the so-called 'abos' or Annese, the original indigenous inhabitants of Sainte Anne. The story focuses on the twi...
I found a question that I want to answer. I've noticed that answers on this site are, in many ways, a lot harder to write compared to other Stack Exchange sites. How can I write a good answer that is as helpful and high quality as possible?
This is one of those areas where a topic breaks the model a bit.
For questions, we have essentially two axes for voting:
Closing a question - possible even if highly upvoted - makes it eligible for deletion and prevents answers from being posted, providing strong encouragement for improvemen...
From this source: (emphasis mine)
Adopting a prophetic tone of archaic allusion for much of the poem,
Eliot asks, “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow/Out of
this stony rubbish? Son of man,/You cannot say, or guess, for you know
only/A heap of broken images…” (ll. 19-22)....
