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1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...
from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...
"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...
choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...
freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...
day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...
he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
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 ...
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 ...
and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...
whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
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...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
life, becoming bitter and angry. In essence they could well become poisonous to themselves and others around them because they hav...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...