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- 3391: Madame Bovary: Emma's Desire To Control Her Surroundings
- ... against the eternal darkness like a nightmare” (Flaubert 302). It is the reality of Lheureux however, that drives Emma to commit suicide. To satisfy her illusions of wealth and grandeur, she is constantly upgrading her house, buying new outfits, and many other luxuries. To be able to support this, she takes many loans from Lheureux. Slowly, the bills start accumulating, and Emma is so much into debt that she cannot get ...
- 3392: The Narrator and Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls to Control?
- ... of having a misidentity, but it is his conception of identity, which is mistaken. The moment of realization for our narrator is in the street scene with Tod Clifton’s puppets. The line about the doll, "For a second our eyes met and he gave me a contemptuous smile" (Ellison 433) illustrates this. It shows the reader that Tod Clifton was aware of his position as a puppet all along and ...
- 3393: Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
- ... 1.8 per 1000 people. In New York City, it is 2.5 per 1000, but in Mott Haven the rate rises to 6.0” (p. 171). To compound matters of health, the buildings that house these people are both rat infested and in such need of repair that they are borderline condemned. Most of the elevators do not work thus forcing its inhabitants to utilize the stairs which is very ...
- 3394: Of Mice and Men: George, Lennie, and Crooks
- ... become more than society expected of him, is to own a field with George, and have others working for him. “Someday, we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow an’ some pigs…” Lennie worked as a laborer following George to wherever work could be found on the farms in California. When Crooks, a black farm hand ...
- 3395: Wuthering Heights: A Novel of Revenge
- ... vagabond, and won’t let him sit with us, nor let him sit with us any more; and, he says he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the house if we break his orders ” (Ch. 3 Pg 47). Therefore, Heathcliff grew up as a bitter, wicked person, waiting for the right time to take revenge against Hindley. In addition, Hindley tortured Heathcliff when he ...
- 3396: Kerouac's On the Road: Living in Clip
- ... 1957 Peck, David. "On the Road, (Character Profiles)." Materplots Complete 1999. CD-ROM. Boston: Salem Press, Inc.,1999. Podhoretz, Norman. "The Know-Nothing Bohemians." in Partisan Review Spring 1958: 305-318. Rpt. in The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism. Vol. 4. New York: Chelsea Hoise Pub.,1986. 2069 Stevenson, David L. "James Jones and Jack Kerouac: Novelists of Disjunction" 1963:195-212. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 2. Detroit ...
- 3397: Drinking: A Love Story - A Review
- ... for her father and longed to be close to him. She described her parents relationship as being distant and cold, eventhough there were no fights or cold words. The tension was so thick in their house, like a smothering black fog was setteled over. The only time this fog was lifted was after dinner when her mother would bring out the pitcher of martinis for her father. After he had his ...
- 3398: Something Wicked This Way Comes: Conflicts Between Father and Son
- ... his one and only child, William, and William does not know that is expected of from his father. They are two distinct individuals who live in the same place, the same planet, and the same house. There is a barrier that seems to exist whenever they are faced with one another. For Charles, it is a constant battle to wonder of the difference of age, and William is unable to release ...
- 3399: A Rose for Emily: Victim of Circumstance
- ... Everything that she loved left her. Her father probably impressed upon her that every man she met was no good for her. The townspeople even state "when her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone. She had become humanized" (219). This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of liberation for ...
- 3400: The Grapes of Wrath
- ... was kicked off his land. Rose of Sharon Rose of Sharon suffers the most of all the Joads. At the beginning of the book she had dreams of settling down with Connie in a white house and having her baby there. She then in the course of the novel is abandoned by Connie and has a stillborn child due to under nourishment. After all this though she becomes a better person ...
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