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so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

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...

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

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...

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...

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

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...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

luster that made her, herself, shine so" (Capote 14-15). In this one can see how despite the group of people she hung out with, ...

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

all of its aspects. This also ties in with the idea that they are traveling to the city of Canterbury to be redeemed. Here, the po...

At the same time, however, it reflects a twinge of sadness with Allens passing and the importance it played in his life year after...

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

people who dabbled in witchcraft were conspiring with "the Devil" (Fripp 646). According to St. Paul, "And then shall that wicke...

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

This is the function of a shawabti, but does it really describe the way in which one was lovingly carved, placed, or the perspecti...

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...