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

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...

other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...

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

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

from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...

"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...

closer to home, meaning that the consequences of the war are more far-reaching than they are to Nick, his counterpart. "In Another...

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...

idea of Equilibrium and warned not to do anything until he knows what the effect of his action will be: "... you must not change ...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...

luster that made her, herself, shine so" (Capote 14-15). In this one can see how despite the group of people she hung out with, ...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

In five pages this paper examines how the Green Knight is symbolically portrayed as strong, noble, and just. There are no other s...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

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

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...