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'A Rose For Emily' Short Story Analysis

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

A Review of Spiderwoman's Granddaughters

usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...

Symbolism in the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

David Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Symbolism

1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Decisions of the Hero

1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...

The Virgin Suicides Aspects

and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...

Langston Hughes' Dream Deferred

life, becoming bitter and angry. In essence they could well become poisonous to themselves and others around them because they hav...

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

into the word and lasts for only a few minutes before a decrescendo takes the music into the Russian folk dance theme, which comme...

Organizational Communication and Personal Power

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

Symbolism and Allegory in “Young Goodman Brown”

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

Issues in Morrison's The Bluest Eye

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

Savagery and Christian Symbolism in "Lord of the Flies"

from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...

Color Symbolism in "Heart of Darkness"

"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...

Symbolism in Great Gatsby & Animal Dreams

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

Symbolism in Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

Paul’s Case by Willa Cather

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...

Animal and Bird Symbolism in “A Doll’s House”

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Religious Symbolism in Hurston’s “Sweat”

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

Sonnet CXVI: “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”

the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

Tree Symbolism in “A Separate Peace”

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

Trifles by Susan Glaspell

women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...

The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

Symbolism and Imagery in The Glass Menagerie

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

Symbolism in Two War Novels

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

Symbolism in Yasunari Kawabata’s The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

Symbolism in Belle Epoch Literature

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...