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Social Isolation and Women in Anne Tyler's Novels

it seemed to be the only way open to me" (Celestial 63). Mary wishes to avoid the "single narrow path" outlined by her parents liv...

Urban Life and Women

than the experience a modern urban man of her age may come upon. A modern urban man may experience a time in his life where he fee...

Human Isolation in The Country Doctor and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

Family: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

person she is and as such she is certainly not perfect. But, there is a part of her that, like everyone, needs to believe that she...

Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and The Accidental Tourist

ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...

Mary Tyler Moore Show & Feminist Theory

photogenic, but air-headed newscaster. Additional cast members were Valerie Harper, as Marys best friend Rhoda; Cloris Leachman, n...

Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler'

This novel is compared with Tyler's Ladder of Tears and also specifically analyzed in terms of theme, plot, and characters in this...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and Examples of Literary Christianity

Way" for Ian: forget college, provide for and rescue aging parents from the care of Lucys kids (ages six, three, and baby) and "se...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

View of E.M. Forster's Room with a View

In five pages this paper discusses a young woman's healthy development as presented in E.M. Forster's Victorian novel Room with a ...

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

In five pages this paper analyzes The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler in terms of a family's moral connection. Three sources are...

Religion and Guilt in Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler

In 5 pages this paper critiques Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler in an assessment of its weaknesses and strengths. There is 1 source cit...

Character Analysis of Macon and Muriel in The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

Literature and Violence

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and its Social Commentary

The social commentary by author John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath is examined in five pages....

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Daisy Miller by Henry James and Society

In five pages this 1878 novel by Henry James is examined in terms of how social conventions are thematically portrayed....

Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl

who was in the experience. Such is the case of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. The Story The story begins with a fathe...

Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset

Elizabeths father would come to see her now and then, for she lived outside his realm in a place where she knew she was princess, ...

Older Women and Fertility

much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Order in the Character of Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

In five pages a character analysis of Macon Leary focuses upon how he thematically represents order and systems. There are no oth...

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

last comment is an example of Brookners sense of humor, which one can presume is the main appeal of the book, if it coincides with...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

Nineteenth Century Women in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, she wrote, "A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern langua...

Poetry and the Reflection of Women's Status

rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...