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each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

is filled with allegorical references to the time of chivalry and has been described as an allegorical epic. As outlined in the i...

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

quest as being somehow representative of the times in which he lived. Through the use of exaggeration, Cervantes is basically say...

in Austens book. And, such realities are subtly reflected in Fieldings book as well, despite the fact that it was written only a f...

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

much of a respected figure. One author, in noting this states that his "playboy image impeded the proper assessment of his work" (...

themselves whether or not the writer is referring to the natural or supernatural world as often the storyline it intercepted or ov...

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage" (Conrad 102). In Ellisons novel we see a young B...

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...

Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...

he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...

down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...