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Answered a Question in Winter Dreams

One of the repeated words in Part III is "poor." It is clear that Judy Jones can...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

Myrtle Wilson is ashamed of her social position in life. She is ashamed that she...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

In this context, Daisy suggests that she hopes her daughter is a fool. Daisy...

Answered a Question in The Second Sex

In The Second Sex, Beauvior writes of how woman's role in society has been...

Answered a Question in The Second Sex

In The Second Sex, Beauvoir notes that, historically, men and women have been...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

The phrase or concept of "putting yourself in someone else's shoes" is a constant...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee uses personification in the quote. Personification is a figure of speech in...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

As Gatsby contemplates reliving his past with Daisy, he goes into what Nick...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

Miss Stephanie Crawford is the neighborhood gossip. She makes it a point to know...

Answered a Question in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

In this poem, the speaker, a poet, recalls wandering through nature by himself....

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

When Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to her church, the children learn that there...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

The reader learns that Aunt Alexandra takes part in the women's missionary circle....

Answered a Question in Literature

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that includes aspects of steam-powered...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

There are several plant or flower metaphors that describe Daisy. The most overt...

Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

The tone at the end of Chapter 7 is intense, on account of the violence of the car...

Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451

At the end of Part II, Montag discovers that Beatty has driven him and the other...

Answered a Question in Dover Beach

"Dover Beach" is a dramatic monologue. In a dramatic monologue the speaker is not...

Answered a Question in Macbeth

Macbeth is constantly bothered by guilt of having killed Duncan. Macbeth is also...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

Aunt Alexandra feels sorry for Atticus. In fact, she says, "I'm sorry, brother."...

Answered a Question in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

The reader never really knows if the old man is a real angel or if he is an old...

Answered a Question in Roland Barthes

In "The Death of the Author," Barthes writes about Balzac's story Sarrasine and...

Answered a Question in Seventeen Syllables

When Tome was still living in Japan, she was in love with another young man. But...

Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men

George and Lennie are described in the opening paragraphs of the first chapter....

Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men

When George and Lennie first meet the Boss, George does all the talking. The Boss...

Answered a Question in Hamlet

As Laertes is leaving for France in Act 1, Scene 3, Polonius tells him to be...