Tracy Stone

As one of the most influential preachers and instigators of The First Great Awakening, which swept America in a fever of repentance and rededication to a sort of Puritanical Christian doctrine,...

One big similarity between the two novels is that both follow protagonists who seek to fulfill their desire for another: Gatsby pursues Daisy throughout the novel, while Hester’s consummation of...

In the stark, utilitarian world Orwell portrays, there is almost no beauty.  Winston and his girlfriend must go outside the boundaries of Big Brother’s world in order to find beauty to enjoy...

If you’re doing a project on the novel, you might consider it as a chronicle of what has been called “the lost generation,” or the generation traumatized by the first World War.  This...

The Biblical tale of Cain’s murder of his brother Abel first comes up when Samuel and Lee have ganged up on Adam to get him to finally name his newly born twin sons.  Samuel jokingly suggests...

Mama Younger, the strong matriarch of the extended Younger family all living in one tiny, slum-like apartment, is a devout, if traditional, Christian woman.  She rules the household, including...

Lee is Adam’s Chinese servant towards the beginning of the novel, but eventually he becomes first Samuel’s friend, then Adam’s, then Adam’s boys’ nanny and god parent, as he stays with the family...

Adam first meets his new wife Cathy as she is recovering from a very bad beating by her former beau (who she had been hustling, as Cathy hustles everyone).  As her scars begin to heal, Adam...

Published in 1899, "The Awakening" utilizes the dominant realistic style of its era of American writing.  Realism dictates that the objects of the piece (characters, setting, events, etc.) be...

Edna Pontellier's awakening to a greater sense of personal freedom seems to take great strides in her encounters with other people who model or demonstrate to her that freedom in their own...

When the time traveller propels himself so far into the future, what he ends up witnessing is a logical extrapolation of certain capitalistic tendencies that Wells saw in his time: for example, the...

Amanda Wingfield is the mother of Tom and Laura Wingfield.  Whereas her son, Tom, wants to escape his family, and her daughter, Laura, lives in an imaginary world she's created, Amanda takes...

The first person to come across the fallen Martian spacecraft is the astronomer Ogilvy.  He had been observing Mars at the moment there was an apparent explosion or expulsion of something, and...

The first thing to remember about the poem is that Robert Frost, the author of the poem, is not the narrator of the poem; much like Robert Browning, an earlier British poet that he admired, Frost...

Take a look at the Enotes study guide for the story, which explains that it is an allegory- i.e. a story that has a message on a figurative level in addition to a literal level.  In this case,...

The elevator is operated by a lower-caste worker.  In the era the novel was written, elevators were really simple machines that had to be operated by a worker, but in the science fiction...