YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty
Essays 61 - 90
property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...
left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...
never a bone int" (I.284). Again, the lamprey (a type of eel) and the reference to its bonelessness, is a reference to the penis. ...
* Adjacent to and on a coin on the floor well under the front passenger seat; * A flow of blood on the hinge of the right...
is not, if she has the courage to break away and follow her own convictions. She tries to reassure her mother that shell write, ...
be reciprocated. In spite of the fact that she fully understands the unlikely nature of such a relationship, this does not deter ...
this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...
only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...
who is not incredibly involved in her one daughters life. That daughter is Dee. The other daughter, Maggie, lives with her and the...
void in her life prior to the arrival of Sylvie. Without her mother and with only her sister to rely on she was unable to find a r...
theme that is carried throughout the book--namely, that a rationalization for patriarchy sounds absurd when reversed. Little girl...
In the end, what emerges is the realization that it was quite possibly Henry VII that used various tactics to blacken the name of...
became very disenchanted with what she saw. His policies stifled an entire nation, and Changs family was no different. Chang wit...
is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...
In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...
Celia Jellin has been daing Cedric Brown for almost a year. Here, on the eve of graduation, Celia finds that she is pregnant. Havi...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
now that she is gone that they will have some rest, that no one will bother them anymore, least of all their mother. And yet, they...
by never discussing the mother. It is as if she simply disappeared without a trace or that she simply never existed. This can brin...
families are quite diverse. In Murrays case we have one side of the family that came from free blacks. Although they were poor t...
She does not confine herself to a single domestic location, and is overtly...
her family were forced to abide by Communist principles even - and especially - when they did not condone them from a personal per...
to take on a work, apologies for the lateness of a manuscript, etc.; however, the majority of the letters demonstrate the erudite ...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...
not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...
two "get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a tap-dancing child abuser" (Divine Secrets of t...
each triumph was their own as well. They trusted each other and their friendships were continually nurtured throughout time by the...