Essays 181 - 210
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...
home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
that her mother "had never really had a friend of her own before" and it is clear that the friendship means a great deal to both w...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...
are differences, the two texts do not necessarily contradict each other. The account of creation in Chapter 1 is very detailed. ...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...
all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
narratives opening reveals. Hesiod pictures the "Void or Chaos" as primordial environment, then comes Earth (Gaia) and then Ero...
substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...