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some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

major role in shaping our behavior, temperament, and intelligence" (PBS). While nature plays important roles in ones life, the env...

In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...