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In 6 pages this paper proposes an alternative ending to this feminist novel in which Edna Pontellier does not commit suicide and i...

Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...

In five pages this research paper examines how Chopin carefully crafted protagonist Edna Pontellier to be the central focus of her...

In six pages Emerson's influence in terms of one's self authority is considered as it is reflected in the protagonist of Edna Pont...

while maintaining a safe distance so no one is compromised. All the characters enjoy considerable affluence and leisure. None of...

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...

These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

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...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

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...

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...