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

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...

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

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...

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

themselves aloof until the conditions of their acquiescence are met through achieving an understanding with the men who occupy the...

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

but he cant precisely put his finger on the problem either. She is lovely and gracious; she certainly doesnt abuse the children or...

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...

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

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

to be "shockingly revolutionary" (Sorensen 12). This feature of his work is considered today to be related to be a reflection of...

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

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...

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...

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