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turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

and A Canary for One are three such pieces that are a reflection of Hemingways typical nature in that they befit the very essence ...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

one year, what it is that women truly want from a man. For whatever reason, the Queen has chosen to give the man a choice - death...

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

The honour code which decrees that those who bring shame on the community must remove themselves from it was the ethical system wh...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....