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telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

him and who has lawful access to the mother" (Oedipal trajectory/Oedipal complex, 2004). As the boy develops he begins to realize ...

This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...

a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...

it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...