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reside," with the house representative or symbolic of the society as a whole (Goloversic). If we picture the house as society we ...

and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depress...

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...

narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...

In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...

In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...

a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...

on her by her "captors." Because of the role of her own husband in her loss of freedom and the impact of societal perceptions on ...

and claims to be overtired, although she seems to be able to write some thousand words at a stretch. In this first section she als...

A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...

In five pages this story's 5th section is analyzed in terms of the wallpaper symbolism, what it projects, and how it relates to th...

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...

In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...

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

In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...

won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...

In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...