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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
1,083 wordsThere is a well-known expression that states, "There are two sides to every coin. " This is no different when it comes to Mrs. Frome. She is either Zeena, a mean, cruel hag or Zenobia, a munificent, compassionate woman. In the book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Zeena is described as thin and hard. While in the short story Zenobia by Gina Berrault, Zenobia is described as slender, and gentle. There are two different "Zenobia's" depicted and they are very paradoxical. Each author has used her own ...
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Human Life Modern World
1,336 words... nt, she does the right thing, makes the right gesture... " Over the past year many people have sent me their take on the Grandmother and Misfit. Here are two of what I consider to be the best. Ruben de Tal writes: I thought the conversation at the end had at its core the primary discussion of animal vs. metaphysical human nature. In other words, when the Misfit says of Jesus, "I wasn't there so I can't say He didn't... " and "It ain't right I wasn't there because if I had of been there I wou...
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Left With No Answer Answer To Her Question Misfit
898 wordsThe grandmother is based on conventional Southern women. She dresses in her Sunday best so that noone would be mistaken as to her status as a lady, an issue at the heart of every true Southern woman. She related stories of old mansions and of the little 'pickaninny' by a door. This was not a racial comment because for it to be there would have to be an intent to insult an African American and there was not. This was written to further convey the notion of her embodying all the true characteristi...
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Short Story Criticism Christ Like Figure
1,363 wordsFlannery Oconnor's A Good Man is Hard to Find A Good Man is Hard to Find presents a masterful portrait of a woman who creates a self and a world through language. (Shenck 220) At least that is what Mary Jane Shenck thinks of the Flannery OConnor story. Several different people have several different views of this controversial and climatic work of Oconnor's. In this paper I will take a look at these different views of different situations and characters in this book. First we will take a look at...
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Rises Must Converge Good Country People
1,224 wordsGood Country People: Like Julian in " Everything that Rises Must Converge, " Hulga is a proud intellectual and has little doubt of her belief in " nothingness. " However, by the end, she has fallen prey to the same naive stereotypes as her mother. Do you think her beliefs are based on reason or on the desire to distinguish herself from the ignorance which is all around her? Hulga accentuates her wooden leg by making unnecessary noises when she walks and plays up the deformity...
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Good Country People Good Man Is Hard
879 wordsThe Grotesque in Flannery OConnor Flannery OConnor, a prolific Southern author, was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925 during the Great Depression. After her fathers death from lupus when OConnor was fifteen, she and her mother moved to Andalusia, a rural quail farm outside of Milledgeville, Georgia. OConnor herself was diagnosed with lupus at the age of twenty-five and suffered greatly from the disease which finally killed her. She was educated in parochial Catholic schools where she learned the...
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Lord Of The Flies William Golding
1,011 wordsLord of the Flies by William Golding It has taken man many thousands of years to evolve from an ape. Many geniuses knowledge was passed down through the generations to allow civilization to occur. Humans are animals, with barbarous instincts and a predisposition to violence. One can question if we are really civilized at all. This question is raised in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The protagonist, Ralph, as leader of the boys, goes face to face with a deteriorating society and...
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Mice And Men Back Of The Head
1,670 wordsOf Mice and Men (1937), written in the same genre as The Grapes of Wrath, that of a story about migrant farm workers and their lives as a reflection on society, was the book that thrust Steinbeck into the limelight as a national celebrity. He won many awards and honors including being picked as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year. Steinbeck's style is what earned this praise, that of a natural flow of words which are simple in form but complex in their meaning. He painstakingly desc...
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Joyce Carol Oates Good Man Is Hard
1,500 wordsSchool shootings, bombings, rape, and murder are words that are commonly seen in newspaper headlines and heard on the morning news. To most people these acts seem like senseless violence. However, writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Flannery OConnor use these same violent images to deliver a powerful moral message. Their stories Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? and A Good Man is Hard to Find are very comparable in the lessons that they teach. Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where ...
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Good Man Is Hard Man Is Hard To Find
1,269 wordsThroughout her short story? A Good Man Is Hard to Find, ? Flannery O? Connor uses subtle characterization to establish the characters of the Misfit and the Grandmother. While some of the characteristics in the story are straightforward and easily understood, others require one to look beneath the surface. Upon one? s first reading of the story, he or she most likely believes that the Misfit is a dangerous, bad criminal, and the Grandmother just an old woman; but upon closer examination, it is ob...
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