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'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and the Character of Dee

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...

Misfit Character Symbolic Uses in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

Setting in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe and Revenge

that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...

Characterizatons in A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and White Elephant Symbolism

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 ...

Conflict in the Relationship Between Mother and Daughter in 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan

an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorn and Puritan Thought

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

'Song' by Allen Ginsberg, 'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, and Love

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

'The Demon Lover' by Elizabeth Bowen

Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th annivers...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

Analysis of Chinua Achebe's 'Dead Men's Path'

In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...

Analyzing 'The Train' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, ...

'The Portable Phonograph' by Walter van Tilburg Clark

sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...

D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner' and the Character of Paul

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

Point of View in 'Araby' by James Joyce

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

Violence in 'How to Tell a True War Story' by Tim O'Brien and 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

Characters in Open Secrets by Alice Munro

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

Commentary on Virginia Woolf's 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe and Dramatic Irony

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

Themes in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find,' 'Revelation,' and 'Greenleaf' by Flannery O'Connor

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Gender Controls

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

Literary Works and Socioeconomics

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

Music and Brotherly Love in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...