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Comparison of Protagonists in Joyce Carol Oates' and Anton Chekhov's The Lady with the Pet Dog

experience, clearly illustrating how her lack of inner strength and fortitude is what stands in the way of her finding true happin...

'The Lady with the Pet Dog' by Joyce Carol Oates

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

Society in Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog

the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...

'The Lady with the Pet Dog' by Anton Chekhov

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

Oates/How I Contemplated the World... & Postmodernism

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Lady with Lapdog

and one could well envision how Chekhovs character, Gurov, may well have married for something other than love. "He had been talke...

Setting in Stories by Joyce, Oates and Boyle

This essay pertains to setting in of James Joyce's "Araby," Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," and T. ...

Fantasy Symbolism in Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going and Where Have You Been?'

Symbolism used by the author and what it reveals about the childhood of the protagonist are examined in this analysis of Joyce Car...

Gurov's Dilemma in The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

In three pages this paper considers Gurov's change in attitude and his discovery that with love comes responsibility and that this...

Literature and Culture in Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, and Amy Tan

her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that ...

'The Lady with the Dog' by Anton Chekhov

he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

Storytelling and the Film Adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

Story Significance of Joyce Carol Oates's 'Black Water'

on real events, but a fictional work inspired by the nature of the wealthy and powerful and the nature of simple young women lured...

Female Protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants and Anton Chekhov's The Darling

It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...

Human Nature in Sherwood Anderson's Death in the Woods and Anton Chekhov's The Lady with a Pet Dog

In a paper consisting of seven pages characterizations and outer and inner reality presentation are considered. Eight sources are...

Literature, Female Characters, and the Theme of Phenomenal Women

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'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

An Analysis of the 'Fear Cripples the Soul, So You Just Have to Fight It' Aphorism

occult meaty tumors that terrify - I see as blood, disease, phlegm, and so on... I am used to seeing" (Selzer, 2005, p. 636). He ...

Analysis of Five American Short Stories

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

Short Story Analysis of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Joyce Carol Oates' Dark Writings

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates

In 3 pages the life and boxing analogy developed by Joyce Carol Oates in On Boxing is analyzed. There are 2 sources cited in the ...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates' Short Story Characters

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...