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culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th annivers...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, ...

sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...