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had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

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

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

time and youth as one that is part of nature, something he has observed as well. In his work titled Intimations of...

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

Expeditionary Force" (Masterliness, 2008). From the information presented thus far it would seem that many admired and res...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

As Lennies self-appointed protector, George emerges as the stronger of the two men. Both uneducated and largely unskilled, neithe...

a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japanese traditions. She is simultaneousl...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

"Tortilla Flat" set in Monterey, California tells of a tale of several wanderers who end up staying at the homes of Danny which we...

it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a most sterile promontory; ... Man delights ...

to be. Fate has other things in store for Lennie and in the end, it can be said that their friendship is tested one last time....

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

of our known world esteemd him." As we note, Horatio had a great deal of respect for Hamlet, and later illustrated how Hamlet had ...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...

and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...

suspects of being promiscuous. She is a flirt and immediately begins flirting with the bunk hands. Curley, a highly volatile man, ...

his true intellect becomes completely clouded over and his ability to understand who and what he is becomes an even more distant p...

important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...