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applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

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

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 ...

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...

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

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

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

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 ...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...