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Answered a Question in Things Fall Apart

Calling Things Fall Apart a "story" is an fitting characterization because it is...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

Tom has violent tendencies. When Nick accompanies Tom and Myrtle to an afternoon...

Answered a Question in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The speaker stops in the middle of the woods to admire the beauty of the scene....

Answered a Question in The Sniper

After killing the enemy sniper, the protagonist, "the sniper," decided he wants to...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

It is generally assumed by critics that Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim are engaged in...

Answered a Question in Self-Reliance

Transcendentalism is a belief system whose adherents seek knowledge through...

Answered a Question in Hamlet

The first unnatural event or image in the play is the presence of the ghost,...

Answered a Question in Walden

In the first Chapter of Walden, "Economy," Thoreau explains how and why he wanted...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

In Chapter 8, Mr. Avery shows his superstitious side and blames the snow on the...

Answered a Question in The Purse-Seine

The gleaming shoal of fish in the water at night is a beautiful scene, the fish...

Answered a Question in Literature

One of the interesting things about "The Fish" is that the reader discovers the...

Answered a Question in Self-Reliance

The main requisite for self-reliance is to trust yourself. One must be willing to...

Answered a Question in Ulysses

Ulysses is conflicted because he feels the obligation to be with his family but he...

Answered a Question in Louise Erdrich

One of the themes in "The Shawl" is trauma and how traumatic experiences can be...

Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown

Some critics remark that Hawthorne is criticizing Puritanical-Calvinism. Calvinism...

Answered a Question in Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

In the first 57 lines, the speaker recounts how it has been five years since his...

Answered a Question in John Keats

The use of negatives in the second stanza do not necessarily cancel out the image...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

Michaelis is George Wilson's friend who owns a coffee shop next to the ashheaps....

Answered a Question in Dover Beach

In the first stanza of "Dover Beach," the speaker watches a lighthouse on the...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

In this context, "blankly" describes the blank look on Gatsby's face. He is filled...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

In this section of Chapter 2, Nick is both repulsed by and attracted (somewhat...

Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies

Jack leads like a tyrant. He uses physical force to impress and enforce his own...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

If Nick were to forget this idea, that not everyone was born with (or taught by...

Answered a Question in Ode to the West Wind

In the first stanza of the first section, the speaker refers to the "breath of...

Answered a Question in Macbeth

There is no textual evidence or indication in Act 1, Scene 5 or at any place in...