Essays 301 - 330
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...
theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...
and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...
whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...
he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...
trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...
regions, such as Palestine, Bethany and Cana. Some of what John records only an eyewitness could have reported, such as the fragra...
of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...
young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...
the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
and dedication to his single goal, he was able to afford two of them; Old Dan (the "brawn" of the duo) and Little Ann (the "brains...
great deal of information about the Birlings, even before they speak. It is a family dinner, but the setting is extremely formal a...