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'The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway and Powerlessness

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

Marxist View of the Misfit Character in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

The Importance of Harley in O'Dell's Back Roads

of things then he can feel justified in being angry at his mother for leaving him as the father and provider of the children. Be...

Character Analysis of Philip in Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

to others had amused him, but it was disheartening when used against himself" (Forster, chapter 5). We are constantly remi...

Religious Commentary in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

Leadership and Character

self and applies a moral message to his way of being in the world. Others may not agree with this moral message, but a man of cha...

Characters in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood

as the world is filled with poison and chaos and destruction. They meet Oryx at a time when they are perhaps struggling to find so...

Fashion and Status in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

Analyzing Mrs. Kearney in Dubliners by James Joyce

1984). They are "depicted as powerless, passive, and silent or, if they do act, as monstrous; Mrs. Mooney, after all, has the sens...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

'No Place for You, My Love' by Eudora Welty

a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed statement as compared with the storys absolute objective, what is left...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Objects

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

Emma Bovary and Dmitri Gurov

less intelligent, intuitive and passionate than Emma, and yet he "receives an education as a health officer which equips him for a...

The Concept of the "Other" in Alcott and Davis

and never will-even though hes making a lot of money. The Other, then, is someone who is not one of us. And having defined them on...

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz"

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

Analysis of Harry in Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

The Thing in the Forest by A.S. Byatt

Primrose, the chubbier and blonder of the two, is an average girl, like Penny, and she really has no concept of the war that is go...

Character Analysis: Lyman in "The Red Convertible"

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

'Ammalat Bek' Character Development

alter his lifes course. Defining this particular concept calls for ones close interpretation of what the protagonists role truly ...

Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures, Life, and Judgments

essence, sex was available to anyone and there had previously been no such thing as the selling of sex. But, this also enticed the...

Mrs. Wilson's Battle in "I Want to Live!"

serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...

Weakness: “The Story of an Hour”

In many ways, as the story progresses, the reader essentially forgets her heart condition. But, if one keeps this in mind one can ...