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Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

Ian Frazier's On the Rez

and singing ancient songs and lose myself in that moment when all the breaths and all the heartbeats become one. What I want is ju...

Misfit Character Symbolic Uses in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and White Elephant Symbolism

can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Cinematic Analysis

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

Literary Device of Symbolism

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

Carlos Fuentes' 'The Death of Artemio Cruz'

do this type of disjointed reminisce. The story gives a great illustration of how setting can become as real and subtle a charac...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

Overview of 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

Literary Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it ...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

Government's Policies on War and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Satirical Commentary

eros, or cupid, in that the dust from her makes a person fly. Pixie dust coupled with happy thoughts send one skyward...just as fi...

William Butler Yeats' 'The Wilde Swans of Coole'

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Aziz is a doctor who is living in India as the novel opens. His wife has died and he is raising his three children. Dr. Aziz makes...

Native American Short Story 'High Horse's Counting'

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

Literary Analysis of Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

An Analysis of Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers

where she needs to go. Klara is taught from an early age that art is a very powerful thing. Her grandfather, a master carver, t...

Christian Symbolism in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

because he sounds wonderful. The three children find Aslan while Edmund goes to the witch and tells her that Aslan is going to s...

'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

Emily Dickinson's Poems 341 and 465 Compared and Contrastd

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

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

"The Hills Like White Elephants" - An Interpretation

contrast in each of these dualistic aspects of the setting reflects the dichotomous void that exists between the two central chara...

"Do Not Expect Again a Phoenix Hour" by C Day Lewis

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

'Patterns' of Life and in the Poem by Amy Lowell

and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...