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generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

environment, which is rare anymore, is often a very dangerous environment that can threaten ones life. This makes the reader under...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

taking from different cultures to provide the most appropriate terms. The way in which OHearn fitted into the society around her...

and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

The honour code which decrees that those who bring shame on the community must remove themselves from it was the ethical system wh...

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

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...