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

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

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...

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, ...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

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...

It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

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

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

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...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...

Within 3 pagess, Toni Morrison's 1979 speech at Barnard College is analyzed. Is it possible for women to survive a man's world if ...

her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

the abuse of a child, however the reader may not like that. This same critic indicates how it was "Her scratching the back of her...

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...