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Essays 361 - 390
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...
is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...
have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
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 ...
he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...
camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...
day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...
Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...
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...
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...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
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...
culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...
those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...
Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th annivers...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...