SEARCH RESULTS

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it...

it again" (De Sevigne, 1982). Analyzing the literary insights of a number of these female authors, including Marie-Jeanne LHeriti...

satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

converted storeroom that features the angry sermons of the troubled preacher Gabriel Grimes, Johns father. According to critic Br...

If we look to biology the definition of masculine is related to that of male. The male animal has testicles as opposed to ovaries...

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...

success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

thinking that pretending to be something she is not will somehow make her life more pleasant and simple. However, she learns that,...

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

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...

daughters, only to have them essentially through it all in his face for it was not enough. This simple understanding presents us w...

which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...

daddy, you bastard, Im through" (Plath). Throughout the poem, which is full of Nazi imagery, she has compared herself to a Jew, a...

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...