YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon
Essays 301 - 316
Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...
A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...
at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...
it all. Having been left a widow six years before with eight children and a heavily involved estate, she managed so well that she ...
and as such women did not have these freedoms at the time the Declaration of Independence was written. Interestingly enough, tod...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...
it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...
ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...
is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...
is set on Grand Isle in Louisiana and the Gulf plays a large part in the narrative. We learn that Edna is very fond of music and ...
a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...
AS the novel develops and Edna works towards finding meaning and creative expression in her life she attempts painting which does ...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...