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Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Jim's Character

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

Character Comparison and Contrast of Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sophocles' Antigone

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

Fantasy in James Thurber's 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and the Power Struggle Between Stanley and Blanche

Mississippi and later St. Louis Williams was teased about his deep southern accent and changed his name to Tennessee. Because of f...

Characterization and Ibsen's A Doll's House and Williams' The Glass Menagerie

and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...

Literary Characters and Conflict

seething, boiling and discontent as the odd angled buildings and broken windows. It can be the quiet solitude of a rustic church, ...

Similarities and Differences in Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily

This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...

Plot Development in Two Novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes

instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...

Compton in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! And The Sound and the Fury

them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine...

Faulkner: As I Lay Dying

be buried in her familys plot (Lilburn). Its summer, its hot, the journey takes nine days - that in itself is macabre enough, but...

Symbols and Themes in “A Rose for Emily”

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

Chopin, Faulkner, and Jewett - The Use of Foreshadowing

setting up the ending in this way through foreshadowing, it would seem to "come out of nowhere", and would be a jarring fit with t...

Houses in Literature and their Symbolic Value

and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...

Miss Emily as Illustrated by her House

one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...