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and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

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

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

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

is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

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...

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

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

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...

knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...

Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...

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 "...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...