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and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...

1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with ro...

function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

would be important to the scheme of things and the fact that she does make the transition herself--no one is dragging her nor does...

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

his prowess as a warrior that has drawn Desdemona to him. When his loss of battles to fight on the actual battlefield come to an e...