Essays 211 - 240
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...
idea of Equilibrium and warned not to do anything until he knows what the effect of his action will be: "... you must not change ...
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...
function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...
1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...
Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...
freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...
theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...
he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...
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...
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 [...
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 ...
luster that made her, herself, shine so" (Capote 14-15). In this one can see how despite the group of people she hung out with, ...
In five pages this paper examines how the Green Knight is symbolically portrayed as strong, noble, and just. There are no other s...
Although various cultures and religions have practiced veiling at various points in history, the contemporary practice of veiling ...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...
the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...
had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at use of symbolism in Great Expectations. The use of London itself as a symbol of corr...