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his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband bera...

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

In five pages sex and conflict in terms of character development are contrasted and compared in these three stories. There are no...

himself as comfortable as he wished" (Kafka 145). During those terrifying early days, when Gregor was uncertain what was overtaki...

In five ways the protagonist Frederic Henry's transformation from boy to man through his wartime experience and romance with Cathe...

In seven pages this essay considers transformation within a comparative context of these short stories....

In five pages this paper discusses how Kate Chopin portrayed female sexuality in her short story 'The Storm.' There are no other ...

This essay consisting of two pages examines the symbolic representation of flowers within the context of this short story by Kate ...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

In five pages these Susan Glaspell and Kate Chopin short stories are contrasted and compared in terms of common threads of social ...

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

In five pages this paper discusses human nature and the conflict that exists between social expectations and human needs within th...

In five pages this paper considers power and race as they are portrayed in the short stories 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin, 'Bat...

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...