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life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...

In seven pages this paper examines how Thomas Hobbes' writings were influenced by Francis Bacon....

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...