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novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...

At the same time, however, the critic takes on the role of the patient in their transference of his or her feelings in regard to a...

In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

salary is vastly different, $48,468 for the civilian and $26,967 for the military sergeant but the total package tells another st...

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...

doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

This 6 page paper is an analysis of the short story by Camus called The Guest. This paper gives a summary of the story as well as ...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

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

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

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

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...