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Helga Crane and Quicksand by Nella Larsen

vague in many cases, while at the same time demonstrating their importance in the grand scheme of things within Harlem. Harlem s...

Love's Success or Failure in Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

Literary Image of Mulattos

thinking that pretending to be something she is not will somehow make her life more pleasant and simple. However, she learns that,...

Nella Larsen's Novels and Awareness of Gender and Race

begins to see herself as somehow less than the rest of humanity, a sub-human at best. This self hatred continues throughout the ...

Comparing and Contrasting Jazz by Toni Morrison with Quicksand by Nella Larsen

This 5 page paper discusses the struggles African-Americans face as they move from a rural setting to an urban one, as portrayed i...

Predestination, Life, and Relationships in Passing by Nella Larsen

one built upon the illusion that she is white. When her skin tone begins to change - slowly at first then becoming more and more ...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Gatsby and Larsen's Passing

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

Four Novels and the American Dream

girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' and Nella Larsen's 'Passing'

This paper consists of a 10 page essay that compares and contrast these works by arguing that the two individuals are respectively...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

Nella Larsen's 'Passing'

one is doing so in the early part of the twentieth century. Back during the time Larsen wrote her groundbreaking story Passing, t...

Overview of the Novel Passing by Nella Larsen

her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...

Impact of Racism in Passing by Nella Larsen

travel without restrictions throughout the many worlds, sexualities and identities of all of American society. Larsens novel expl...

Larsen, Gallant and Their Narration

talked about decorators and expert gardeners and even wrote to some, and banged tennis balls against the large new garage (Gallant...

Light Skinned Blacks 'Passing' Themselves Off as Whites in America

In order to enjoy the better things in life, it was better to deny ones heritage, while reclaiming ones heritage, while noble and ...

A Century of Progress for Women from 1890 to 1990

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

Actual Life Experience in 'The Open' Boat' by Stephen Crane

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

Racism in Works by Nella Larsen and William Faulkner

heritage that he ignored his wifes infidelity and she ultimately committed suicide. In addition, there is Faulkners Lena Grove, t...

Ethnicity in Paradise by Toni Morrison, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, and Quicksand by Nella Larsen

is the daughter of a white mother and a black father. Although her father does not take an active role in her life his presence i...

Strategies to Survive and 'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...

Crane/Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Naturalism

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

Marriage in Ann Petry's The Street, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

to delve into such concentrated and personal subjects as these, especially in front of strangers. However, Larsen recognized the ...

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Existentialism

In 12 pages the ways in which Crane's novel reflects the principles that would later become known as the philosophy existentialism...

Analysis of Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat'

In five pages this paper presents a short story analysis of Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat.' There are no other sources listed....

The Open Boat vs. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

injured while enjoying an African hunting adventure with his wife, Helen. The primary theme is death, and how man often puts off ...

Literary Naturalism of Author Stephen Crane

of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage. In addition, he wrote a myriad of imposing poems, and ninety pieces of short fictio...

William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, and Family Values

In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...

Literature and Social Conflict

In five pages this paper examines how social conflict is reflected in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charlotte P...

Character Analysis of Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

In six pages this paper presents an analysis of the protagonist featured in Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets. There ...

Henry Fleming's Psychological Transformation in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

This paper consists of nine pages and examines how protagonist Henry Fleming transforms psychologically throughout Stephen Crane's...