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fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

or that this story is only a thinly veiled platform for womens suffrage. This story is not just about a womens coming of age or co...

feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

knowledge that Desiree has gone to her death, even though Arnaud will have to cope with a revelation that shakes the foundations o...

tries to find out what happened to the White Rabbit, but then, later, she is more concerned with finding her way home. At the end ...

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

In ten pages this paper analyzes the logic of the absurdity theme in a comparison and contrast of Franz Kafka's The Trial and Lewi...

a child, Alice would listen to her parents families discuss their ancestry with pride, and Alice attributed her activism great-gre...

shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

This 4 page paper describes Toni Morrison's use of imagery and metaphor in her novel Tar Baby....

without struggle: she recognizes that if she chooses to participate in this damaging physical ritual that she will define herself...

are still fleeing nonetheless. From the moment Grace Blanket is murdered until the closing pages of the book, the Indians seem to...

In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...