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literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband bera...

In three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...

In eight pages this paper discusses how Southern life, history and geography are depicted in the short stories 'A Rose for Emily,'...

This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

outside of this reality. Prior to focusing on these elements within the story it is imperative that a person understand the Vict...

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

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

A 5 page essay exploring the book by Kate Chopin. 1 source....

American women writers exposed in their fiction the link between institutional and sexual exploitation of women and female mutenes...

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

In many ways, as the story progresses, the reader essentially forgets her heart condition. But, if one keeps this in mind one can ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...