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apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, ...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

Hemingways protagonists often suffer war wounds similar to his; "excoriate the mother" as he did; or "reflect contemptuously on th...

great deal around the fiesta, or the action of partying and escaping reality. But, with each step or each sense of hope the charac...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

much of his writings, including The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Orwell, a self-described socialist, was al...

boy who would always follow him. We note that Manolin has been required to move to another boat by his father, yet he still remain...

that Santiago spends fighting with the mighty fish. This part of the novel demonstrates for the reader the courage, strength of wi...

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

man (A Farewell to Arms Symbolism, 2002). There are also positive associations with rain in this novel (A Farewell to Arms Symb...

psyche which he has not yet lost. The book did not reach as high a level of commercial success as further books such as Farewell t...

about many things ranging from bullfighting and big game hunting to political causes such as the Spanish Civil War and World War I...

Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper. Upon his graduation in 1917 Hemingway worked six m...

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien. The treatment of "truth" in a fictio...

aching muscles, "Nick felt happy," as he has "left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs" (Hemi...

closer to home, meaning that the consequences of the war are more far-reaching than they are to Nick, his counterpart. "In Another...

done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

is often overlooked as a Hemingway story because it addresses a very different sort of theme. But, it is a timeless theme and it i...

wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

powerful setting. In the title itself we imagine hills and we envision hills that look like white elephants. This could clearly...

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...