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In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...

incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

turn out for the good. A student working on this project can see that the following sentences present something of the tone Poes n...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...

Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...

fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...

important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...