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Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

in men. Her daughter had died in childhood and with her one son she had no articulate relations. On the night when she died she wa...

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

joyce.html). His mother, Mary Jane Murray, was "ten years younger than Stanislaus, was an accomplished pianist whose life was domi...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...

her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...

symbolizes heavy choices, heavy responsibility, and perhaps many different things to many different people. It also helps us see t...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...