Maxie Champlin

In Kate Chopin's "The Storm," we are not meant to look at Calixta as a victim of Alcee's amorous attentions. They are both consenting adults who give in to their passions in the heat of a quite...

In Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, the “value of a dollar” is significant because James Tyrone is accused by his family of being a miser with his money. Although Tyrone has made a...

In Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Mary Tyrone cannot find happiness in the present because she is emotionally stuck in the past. She constantly thinks about her girlhood, before...

In Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the story begins with John and the narrator arriving at a country estate. John has arranged for his wife to rest at the estate, for she has been in poor health....

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is set between 1939 and 1959. Hansberry does not pick a specific date for the play to suggest that the dilemmas that the Younger family face are ongoing...

This playful-seeming poem contains wonderfully fun imagery, as the boys stand around, clearing their throats like little bankers. What has alwasy struck me about this poem, however, is the war-like...

The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is in touch with the fact that she is slowly losing her mind. She admits that she is feeling better in "body," but her husband will not allow her to voice her...