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than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...
on real events, but a fictional work inspired by the nature of the wealthy and powerful and the nature of simple young women lured...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
This essay presents a character study of Arnold Friend from "Where are going, Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, Three pa...
Such is the case, in my experiences in reading the authors noted above. No one can contest the fact that these women have indeed ...
experience, clearly illustrating how her lack of inner strength and fortitude is what stands in the way of her finding true happin...
and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...
and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...
In 3 pages the life and boxing analogy developed by Joyce Carol Oates in On Boxing is analyzed. There are 2 sources cited in the ...
Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...
In five pages this paper describes what the writer personally enjoyed about the text and what value can be gained from reading it....
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...
his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...
appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...
Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...
This essay pertains to setting in of James Joyce's "Araby," Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," and T. ...
revolved around her. She was, in many ways, experimenting with her sexuality as well, a very significant part in coming of age. Sh...
look at her, playing the woman although she is not a woman. "She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of cranin...
Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...
occult meaty tumors that terrify - I see as blood, disease, phlegm, and so on... I am used to seeing" (Selzer, 2005, p. 636). He ...
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say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...
understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...
Symbolism used by the author and what it reveals about the childhood of the protagonist are examined in this analysis of Joyce Car...
the police, will not protect her or her family from this predator. As this suggests, this writer/tutor disagrees with the interpr...
offers insight into the significance of the stranger for his role is to teach the narrator, to make him see in a very new and powe...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...