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of status that is generally given to males by males. Only a woman could speak so clearly to the manner in which woman question th...

In 6 pages this paper proposes an alternative ending to this feminist novel in which Edna Pontellier does not commit suicide and i...

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

In five pages this research paper examines how Chopin carefully crafted protagonist Edna Pontellier to be the central focus of her...

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

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

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the characters in The Story of an Hour by Kate Choping and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail G...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...

shocked the public because the protagonist, Edna Pontellier differed dramatically from the prescribed gender role for white women ...

with love and tenderness, a place where man and woman awaken each other to share the beauty and brutality of life together in mutu...

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

(Chopin Chapter VII). She then meets Robert and her life takes a powerful turn. Not only does she engage in a very passionate a...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

is set on Grand Isle in Louisiana and the Gulf plays a large part in the narrative. We learn that Edna is very fond of music and ...

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

as a means of insuring the others immortality than it is an _expression of love. Sonnet 130, however, is to a woman, and the rela...

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

antagonist, Count Dracula that encompasses both sexuality and perversity. In the oft-analyzed Chapter III, the unconscious Harker...

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...