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In eight pages this paper discusses how Southern life, history and geography are depicted in the short stories 'A Rose for Emily,'...

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

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

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...

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

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband bera...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

American women writers exposed in their fiction the link between institutional and sexual exploitation of women and female mutenes...

A 5 page essay exploring the book by Kate Chopin. 1 source....

to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...

he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

In many ways, as the story progresses, the reader essentially forgets her heart condition. But, if one keeps this in mind one can ...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...