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that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

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...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...

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