Essays 151 - 180
In seven pages this paper examines the character and symbolism featured in this story by James Joyce. Seven sources are cited in ...
In four pages this short story from Distant View of a Minaret is analyzed in terms of the call's symbolism. There is 1 source cit...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...
of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...
to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...
that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...
is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
era has wielded its impact on the mother and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the mo...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...
that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...