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Nick Carraway/The Great Gatsby

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Characters of Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay

In five pages these two female characters are compared. There are no other sources listed....

Portraying the Victim in Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

of their relationships with him. They meet in...

Character Analysis of Esteban Trueba in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

Foreshadowing in “A Tale of Two Cities”

or around the bend. In Two Cities, Dickens uses a great deal of foreshadowing, and it starts with the very first line. "It was th...

A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

over other sleeping drunks as he tottered to the bars of the cell (Baca 2001). He father tried to take his hand, but his mother "y...

The Nature of Radical Innocence in Literary Depiction

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

Three Novels by Toni Morrison and Northern Characters' Ties to the South

In six pages this paper examines the ties to the South northern based characters have in The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Beloved by Toni...

Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

Chang-rae Lee/A Gesture Life

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

Islam In Nigerian and Iranian Politics

religious and ethnic groups to such an extent that people continue to die from the violent outbreaks. At this point in time, Shar...

Notebooks of Melanin Sun

This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...

Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

The Clown by Boll Heinrich

he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...

Jay Gatsby's Personal Philosophy in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

Deliverance by James Dickey

The four men are tackling the wilderness, in the form of a river in North Georgia, and...

Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables With a focus on Hepzibah

how deceiving appearances can actually be, and also illustrates how despite the rapid change from old-world values to modern sensi...

Okonkwo and the Minor Characters in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

The Character of Louisa in Hard Times

This Dickens tale is looked at as it relates to this single character but other characters are discussed as well. Gender is someth...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and a Thomas Gradgrind Sr. Character Analysis

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

Biographical Profile of Zossimov in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoyevsky

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

J.M. Coetzee/Disgrace

This essay focuses on the character of Lucy Lurie in J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace. Three pages in length, only the novel is cite...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Character of Robert Walton

how, if man turned to science to alter the cosmos, science would ultimately turn against man. Robert Walton was the character she...

A Character Analysis for The Man of Mode

A 5 essay analyzing the differences between specific characters in this novel by Sir George Etherege. Characters discussed include...

Analyzing Emma by Jane Austen

of Victorian societys patriarchal structure. In Emma, she constructed her characters in such a way that they could speak for her,...

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Buck is just an animal, but to many people, animals-and particularly dogs-are very smart and have intense feelings. Buck seems to ...

Snow Crash by Neal Stephensonn and Technology's Effects

counterparts "brain-drained" (2). Because America was responsible for the technological fusion, it paid the greatest price with p...

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

concerned with Braithwaite than Flaubert. As the narrative unfolds, Braithwaite shares with the reader his convictions on everythi...