David Morrison
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B.A. Law with extensive knowledge of and expertise in English Literature, History, and Philosophy.
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Answered a Question in Sonny's Blues
Sonny's Blues is set in Harlem in the 1950s. Both the location and the historical setting are extremely important in relation to the themes explored by the book. The 1950s was a decade of... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
George Wilson is the perfect symbol for the downside of the American Dream. He runs a fairly unsuccessful garage in the Valley of Ashes, a place whose residents seem to be unable to get on in life,... -
Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
Fred, like most people, loves Christmas. Scrooge most certainly does not. Fred comes to Scrooge's house to wish him the compliments of the season and to invite him over for Christmas dinner.... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
There are many similarities between "Tintern Abbey" and "Frost At Midnight." This is not particularly surprising, as Wordsworth and Coleridge were close friends and collaborators who shared a... -
Answered a Question in Siegfried Sassoon
The theme is how war dehumanizes us—both ourselves and the enemy. "They," the enemy, are no longer human beings; "they" are the anti-Christ and in fighting them we are fighting against evil... -
Answered a Question in Gulliver's Travels
In part 3, chapter 1 of Gulliver's Travels our hero has set sail once again, this time aboard the Hopewell. Unfortunately, the voyage turns out to be a bit of a disaster. First, the... -
Answered a Question in The Possibility of Evil
The story presents us with a pretty grim picture of human nature overall. Outwardly, Miss Strangeworth is a harmless, respectable old lady, a pillar of the community. However, in the comfort and... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
We learn of at least three schools that Holden Caulfield has attended (and been kicked out of). As the story opens, Holden is at Pencey Prep, though not for much longer. He has flunked all of his... -
Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
The first spirit is the Ghost of Christmas Past. He takes Scrooge back to some scenes from his earlier years. This part of the book provides us with a useful bit of exposition concerning Scrooge's... -
Answered a Question in History
For: Nationalism, of its very nature, is exclusive. It defines not just who does belong to a nation, but who doesn't. It's little wonder, then, that it so often leads to persecution, bloodshed and... -
Answered a Question in Walk Two Moons
Sal draws an analogy between Phoebe's story and an old brick fireplace uncovered by her father on the night her mother left. Sal's father had gradually chipped away at a plaster wall in the... -
Answered a Question in History
Lincoln's "Ten percent plan" was a proposal made during the Civil War that set out how post-war Reconstruction was to take place. Its gradual approach to the matter had all the hallmarks of... -
Answered a Question in History
It might be difficult for many of us to believe today, but quite a few American colonists were still committed to retaining a link with the mother country. But Patrick Henry wasn't one of them, and... -
Answered a Question in The Duchess of Malfi
Bosola is a spy and so used to playing a part. When he comes to arrest the Duchess, with a troop of masked horsemen, that's effectively what he's doing. Earlier in the scene, when he brought... -
Answered a Question in Great Expectations
Trabb, like any small businessman, wants to make money. And when Pip, on his way to London to become a gentleman, enters his tailor's shop, he starts seeing pound signs (£) before his eyes. Money... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Children tend to have a more visceral, more immediate sense of the cruelties and injustices of the world. To a large extent, this is due to their relative innocence. That's not to say that adults... -
Answered a Question in Antigone
It all depends on how much you sympathize with Antigone and her defiance of Creon. If we accept that Antigone is doing the right thing, then her admonition of Ismene seems perfectly justified.... -
Answered a Question in Cold War (1945–91)
As both the United States and the Soviet Union possessed extensive nuclear capabilities, their respective geopolitical goals needed to be achieved without direct confrontation. Thus it became... -
Answered a Question in The Browning Version
The Browning Version constitutes, in many respects, a partial adaptation of Aeschylus's tragedy Agamemnon. The significance of the title is that it is the translation of the play by... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
At the time when the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird was released, in 1962, it wasn't possible to show certain things on screen. There was no bad language, no extreme violence, and... -
Answered a Question in Plautus
The role of wealth is crucial in The Pot of Gold. The title of the play itself is both literal and figurative. Euclio, an old miser, hoards his pot of gold, constantly afraid that one day it will... -
Answered a Question in Sonny's Blues
The narrator works as a math teacher. It is a quite well-paid, respectable job that provides him and his family with a good standard of living, certainly by comparison with most people in the... -
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
Slim is lonely in the sense that he is completely different from those around him. He is the voice of reason and restraint amid all the turmoil and conflict on the ranch. People automatically look... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Maycomb doesn't really change all that much after the trial. The false conviction of an African American male for the crime of rape was all too common in the South at that time. Old habits die... -
Answered a Question in Invisible Man
There are a number of different ways of looking at the final sentence. In keeping with the title, the unnamed narrator is invisible throughout to those who patronize, insult, and oppress him. Like... -
Answered a Question in The Best of Sherlock Holmes
In his letter to Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," Robert Ferguson claims that he is writing on behalf of someone else. Watson is taken in by Ferguson's subterfuge, but... -
Answered a Question in Othello
Iago has a very clear understanding in his mind as to what a man should be. And it is fair to say that Cassio comes well short of that ideal in a number of ways. For one, Cassio is of noble blood,... -
Answered a Question in History
For one thing, there was no real tradition of socialist or left wing politics in America as there had been in Europe. Socialist parties existed, but they received negligible support at the polls.... -
Answered a Question in Malcolm X
At this stage of the story Malcolm is living in Harlem, making a living as a low-level criminal. One of the criminal enterprises he gets mixed up in is the numbers racket: an illegal lottery. But... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
At this point, we've reached chapter 11 of Lord of the Flies. Jack is now in complete control of the island, lord and master of all he surveys. As his power has grown, so Ralph's has gradually... -
Answered a Question in Speak
Melinda's like a lot of people experiencing depression in that she unfairly blames herself for her condition, thinking that it's a sign of her own weakness rather than a genuine illness. This is... -
Answered a Question in Old School
The prep school that the narrator attends, though unnamed, shares many of the features of elite educational institutions both then and now. The school is steeped in one form of snobbery or another.... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
"My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!" This is Abigail Williams, indignantly denying rumors related to her by her uncle,... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Aunt Alexandra means well; for one thing, she understands the importance of establishing boundaries and setting examples when raising children. But, she's far from being an ideal stand-in... -
Answered a Question in The Piece of String
Maitre Hauchecorne picks up the string as he believes it might come in useful one day. He is clearly a thrifty old peasant who is of a generation that doesn't like to throw anything away. At the... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
A mob in itself often seems to have a mind and a momentum all of its own. We see this many times throughout history. We also see it in chapter 16 of To Kill a Mockingbird when an irate... -
Answered a Question in The Monkey's Paw
The theme of "The Monkey's Paw" is one with which most of us are familiar: be careful what you wish for; you might just get it. The characters in the story get their wishes granted, but in rather... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Not really, no. Antonio has clearly made a very foolish decision in agreeing to bind himself to the bond and Shylock's onerous conditions. But Antonio's decision, though strange to us, does have a... -
Answered a Question in Ode to a Nightingale
There seems little doubt that Keats is indeed referring to his dying, consumptive brother, Tom. At the same time, Keats is making a general point, exploring the distinction between the occasional... -
Answered a Question in The Listeners
An unknown traveler arrives one night at a spooky little cottage on the edge of a forest. He knocks at the door several times, but there is no answer. Inside the cottage a number of spirits listen... -
Answered a Question in Peter Pan
Mr. George Darling works as a bank clerk. Knowing what he does for a living helps to provide us with a better understanding of his character. Mr. Darling is a practical, no-nonsense, down-to-earth... -
Answered a Question in The Open Window
Vera doesn't have to deceive Framton Nuttel, but she does so anyway. She's a fifteen year old girl, and she still has a certain youthful exuberance and sense of fun about her. As we discover in the... -
Answered a Question in God's Grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. Metaphor - The working of God's power in his creation is likened to an enormous electrical charge. This is no mere abstraction; it courses... -
Answered a Question in The Wound-Dresser
It certainly can mean that. But in the context of the poem, what the narrator is doing is preparing to draw his audience deeply into the stories he is about to tell it of his days as a surgeon... -
Answered a Question in Tangerine
Paul originally tries out for the Lake Windsor Middle School soccer team, but isn't picked due to his visual impairment. The terms of the school's insurance policy will be voided if they allow... -
Answered a Question in History
Thinkers of the Enlightenment tended to regard the Catholic Church as the epitome of all that was wrong in society. For one thing, the Church's enormous power, both spiritual and temporal, was... -
Answered a Question in Look Back in Anger
Cliff is very much a foil to Jimmy Porter. This means that he provides a contrast to the main character, highlighting certain qualities and character traits in the protagonist. Cliff is a much more... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
He does indeed. He speaks just five words in one of the very last pages of the book, in chapter 31. We pick up the story after Boo has saved Jem and Scout from a crazed Bob Ewell. Scout and Boo are... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Shylock has had a dream, or rather a nightmare, involving moneybags. To him, they represent a bad omen, a premonition that something terrible is about to happen. As Shylock's moneylending business... -
Answered a Question in Dover Beach
The Sea of Faith is in retreat. Arnold hears its "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" as the ebbing tide recedes over the shingle beach. The world of Victorian religious certainty is going out with...
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