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a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

or that this story is only a thinly veiled platform for womens suffrage. This story is not just about a womens coming of age or co...

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

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

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

In four pages The Awakening by Kate Chopin is analyzed in terms of the roles of freedom and escapism. Four sources are cited in t...

In two pages this paper discusses the character's true self understanding and how it evolves throughout the course of the novella ...