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Answered a Question in A Raisin in the Sun
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... -
Answered a Question in The Pearl
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... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
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... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
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... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
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... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
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... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
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... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
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... -
Answered a Question in Jane Eyre
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... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
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... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
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.... -
Answered a Question in A Raisin in the Sun
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... -
Answered a Question in I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—
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...