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Symbols in Gatsby, the Fading American Dream

the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...

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 Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant: Short Story Analysis

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Priestley's use of dramatic devices in An Inspector Calls

great deal of information about the Birlings, even before they speak. It is a family dinner, but the setting is extremely formal a...

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...

The Letter by Somerset Maugham and Characterization

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

Citizen Kane

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...

Gospel Of John 7:37-39 Analysis

regions, such as Palestine, Bethany and Cana. Some of what John records only an eyewitness could have reported, such as the fragra...

The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

Sonnet CXVI: “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”

the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

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...

Catherine Mansfield/Miss Brill's Fur

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Trifles by Susan Glaspell

women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...

Paul’s Case by Willa Cather

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...

Comparative Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and the Effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

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...

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...

Blindness in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

'A Rose For Emily' Short Story Analysis

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

A Review of Spiderwoman's Granddaughters

usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...

The Virgin Suicides Aspects

and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Buzzards

intelligent. She is made to remain aloof from all people in this relationship. The buzzards at this point could well be related to...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...