Crystal Harrigan-Barry

From a literary standpoint, George Murchinson functions as a foil to Asagai. This juxtaposition can be seen in their physical descriptions but more importantly in their behavior. George is eager to...

In Steinbeck's The Pearl, Juana employs the age-old technique of applying a poultice made of seaweed to baby Coyotito's swollen shoulder. As Steinbeck notes, it is as good a remedy as any other and...

Arthur Miller's play The Crucible offers us a glimpse into the inner working of men's hearts and the potential for evil that may lurk there. Reverend Hale is a character intended to be the...

This is an interesting question for an interesting novel. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye takes on a three-day journey that ulitmately leads the protagonist Holden Caulfield and his...

Chapter 7 of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter brings the reader into the mansion of Governor Bellingham. Hester, under the guise of returning some mended gloves to the governor, comes...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is rich in the complexity of the human mind. Dimmesdale is a central element in Hawthorne's examination of what drives a man to what most would...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter explores the Puritanical world and the woman who defies the preconceived notions of womanly behavior and love. Chapter two introduces a throng of women...

Reverend Hale has been charged with the task of determining who is and who is not perhaps practicing the dark arts. While he is not the final determiner in a guilty sentence—that would fall to...

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte's beloved novel, is the story of the eponymous Jane Eyre and her struggles and successes in nineteenth-century rural England. We meet Jane as a young girl and watch her...

Nathaniel Hawthorne uses several devices in his most popular novel The Scarlet Letter. One device, which could be considered foreshadowing, is in the names of some of the primary characters. Pearl...

Nathaniel Hawthorne creates a complex, morally ambiguous character in The Scarlet Letter. Arthur Dimmesdale is a man who struggles through the course of the novel to come to terms with his sin....

Hansberry, in her seminal work A Raisin in the Sun, draws upon all of her characters to tell not only their story, but the collective story of the disenfranchised African-American man. Here, the...

Let's start with the easier—the explicit. Our speaker starts by saying that she literally heard a fly buzz when she died. Move to stanza two and we learn that the room gets quiet and it would seem...