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In eight pages this paper considers how Kate Chopin portrayed the evolving role of women in her protagonist Edna Pontellier in The...

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...

themselves aloof until the conditions of their acquiescence are met through achieving an understanding with the men who occupy the...

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...

what the loss of the deceased means to those who have been left behind, while he simultaneously acknowledges the glory of the afte...

the dominant, using G augmented (V), modulates to G7 on the sixteenth note transition, which returns the melody to Cm (I). Throu...

The conflict between mother and daughter and the importance of the last paragraph of the short story are the focus of this paper t...

This paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, Babylon Revisited and addresses the themes of characterization and addiction. Th...

This paper addresses Gaines' story as the events that unfold develop the character of the protagonist, James. This seven page pap...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

blue hotel against the "dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska," so that the comparison of the two makes Nebraska appear to be a "g...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at three short stories including "The Cranes", "Carnal Knowledge", and "The Necklace"....

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...