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Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...
in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...
behavior. The influence of such forces can seem so over-powering that the parent eventually stops trying, emotionally abandoning c...
life, becoming bitter and angry. In essence they could well become poisonous to themselves and others around them because they hav...
and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...
play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...
1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...
into the word and lasts for only a few minutes before a decrescendo takes the music into the Russian folk dance theme, which comme...
have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...
this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with ro...
that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...
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...
standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...
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...
a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
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 ...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...
hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...
daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
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...