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novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

At the same time, however, the critic takes on the role of the patient in their transference of his or her feelings in regard to a...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...