Essays 661 - 690
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...
Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...
she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...
But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...
bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...
Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...
The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...
In one page the character of Sergeant featured in 'On the Road,' a short story by Langston Hughes, is analyzed. There is no bibli...
This 3 page paper analyzes Toni Cade Bambara's short story The Lesson, which deals with a group of young children learning first h...
In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...
This short story by Toni Cade Bambara is examined in an analysis of identity and trust issues in a paper consisting of five pages....
In six pages this paper examines women's power and how it is portrayed in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God and Ric...
it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...
to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...
women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...
In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...
In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...
terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...