Essays 961 - 990
turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...
the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...
discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...
from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...
Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...
are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...
his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...
he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....
her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...
Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...
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 ...
an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...
a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...
is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...
being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...
generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...