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A Character Analysis for Jake and Brett in The Sun Also Rises

This ten page report analyzes the characters Jake and Brett, comparing them to the other men in the story. The thesis is presente...

Ethan Frome Character Analysis

It means that anyone is capable of killing for example. In any event, in using this definition, it seems more likely that indeed,...

Character Analysis of Siblings in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

New Criticism on the Character of Daisy in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages the new criticism of this classic old character is discussed in terms of its patterns of cause and effect, compariso...

Character of Tom Sawyer in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In five pages this paper discusses the last half of this Mark Twain novel in an analysis of the role the Tom Sawyer character play...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Characters Penelope and Athena

more fidelity than did her missing husband. However, while Penelope is keeping Odysseus home fires burning, it is Athena to whom ...

Plot and Character Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Character Growth

In five pages this paper examines the growth of characters Albert and Celie as a result of their experiences as presented in The C...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Character Nick Carraway

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nick Carraway as featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T...

'Old Bull Lee' Character in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

representation of his quest for authenticity among Americas "outsiders," he presented an example of how his artistic and literary ...

Character Analysis of John Yossarian in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

is his life at risk every time he goes out on a bombing mission. His commanding officer, Colonel Cathcart, is constantly voluntee...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Character Esther Summerson

In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...

Parallels Between Kafka and the Character K in The Trial

This five page paper presents the character K as an alter ego of the author Franz Kafka. Six sources are listed....

Heathcliff Character Formation in Bronte's Wuthering Heights

In five pages the ways in which Heathcliff's character was shaped in terms of the nurture and nature debate are analyzed. There a...

Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer and the Character of Pandarus

In six pages a character analysis of Pandarus in Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer is presented. Five sources are cited in the bibl...

Comparative Analysis of the Characters in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Dante's 'The Inferno'

a commonplace story already familiar to his listeners, he could (and did) omit much of the unnecessary backstory (with respect to ...

Character Comparison in King Lear and Heart of Darkness

quite obvious, if one probes them more deeply, these characters reveal striking similarities worthy of analysis. Charlie Marlow i...

William Faulkner's Character Joe Christmas and his Labels

lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and the Character of Shylock

anti-semitism. Religious: The Christian church of the period inherited all the accumulated "demonization", which had occurred ar...

Characters of Athene and Poseidon in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages these characters as they are featured in Homer's epic are examined in terms of how they contribute to the tale overa...

Classical Literature, Character Vision and Irony

In five pages this paper discusses irony and lack of vision in such works as The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Lysistrata, and ...

Character Analysis of Biff in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages the development of Biff through different life stages from schoolboy to adulthood are examined with a discussion of ...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and a Thomas Gradgrind Sr. Character Analysis

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates' Short Story Characters

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

Critical Character Analysis of Huck Finn

In seven pages this paper presents a character examination of Huckleberry Finn and critically analyzes the adventures the novel pr...

Eyes in Film

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

Crash, A Central Theme

Graham is having an affair with his partner, Ria, who is of Latin American descent; however, Graham cannot seem to remember that ...

Faulkner/Knight's Gambit

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

Willy in Death of a Salesman

major events that shaped his life. This shows that, from early childhood, Willy had no father figure on which to base his ideas of...

Daisy and Nora

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...