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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and J.C. Gardner's Grendel

In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...

Psychoanalysis Reading of 'The Lost Titian' by Christina Rossetti

do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Washington Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle'

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...

'Suffer the Little Children' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...

Analyzing 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

Tricksters in Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit Stories and in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This paper contrasts and compares how the trickster is presented in Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit stories and in Mark Twain's ...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver and the Blind Man Robert

In five pages this short story by Raymond Carver is examined in an analysis of the blind character Robert and what he symbolizes. ...

Dave Saunders in 'The Man Who Was Almost A Man' by Richard Wright

all, it appears that the author addresses social stratification by putting the protagonist in this particular setting. What the p...

A Character Analysis for Jake and Brett in The Sun Also Rises

This ten page report analyzes the characters Jake and Brett, comparing them to the other men in the story. The thesis is presente...

Ending of Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this research paper analyzes the controversial ending of Chaucer's work with the position taken that it is inconclus...

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....

Literary Functioning of Symbolism and Setting

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

Edith Wharton's Roman Fever

In five page this research paper examines the female characters revelations and what they say about their competition and their li...

Character Analysis of Siblings in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

Romance and Desire

is now, so her meekness is both infuriating and false. Then we have the prince, who falls in love with her at the ball because s...

Dan Rather and the Question of Ethics

start with some of the more egregious commentary, just for fun. For someone who accuses Rather of sleazy journalism, Jonah Goldber...

A Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

How Flannery O’Connor Reveals Herself in Her Short Stories ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’ ‘Good Country People,’ and ‘Greenleaf’

of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...

Economics Terminology, Market Structures, and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

cents isnt enough to get for a good plow. That seeder cost thirty-eight dollars. Two dollars isnt enough. Cant haul it all back...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Father/Son Relationship in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

Sundiata: The Text and the Man

in Africa. The importance of the character in the book is that he becomes a true hero. Conde frames the story of Sundiata "with g...

Text and Illustrations in “Alice in Wonderland”

illustrations in the first chapter: the rabbit with the watch, Alice finding the door, Alice looking after the rabbit as he scurri...

Education and Women in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...

Mason’s Shiloh

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

"Molloy" And "Notes From Underground" - Critical Analysis

Notes From Underground. "We are oppressed at being men--men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

Common Reality in “A Walk in the Night”

where we read that "his thoughts concentrated upon the pustule of rage and humiliation that was continuing to ripen deep down with...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...