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Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

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

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...