YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Themes and Symbolism in The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Essays 481 - 510
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
rest of the family. There is a picture of a women wrapped in furs, which hangs on one of the walls in Gregors room. This may be...
speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
is a classic "quest" tale; the description of a mans journey through a strange new world, in this case, Detroit, Michigan. This pa...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...
Invisible Man, a searing portrait of the way in which society ignores the African-Americans in its midst-making them "invisible." ...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...
theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...
it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...
"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...
small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...
true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...