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but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

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

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

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

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...