
Tracy Stone
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I have a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in English, and a background in teaching high school and middle school Language Arts. Recently, I've been teaching at the University of Louisiana while I pursue a Ph.D. in English.
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Answered a Question in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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,... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
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... -
Answered a Question in 1984
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... -
Answered a Question in The Sun Also Rises
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... -
Answered a Question in East of Eden
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... -
Answered a Question in A Raisin in the Sun
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... -
Answered a Question in East of Eden
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... -
Answered a Question in East of Eden
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... -
Answered a Question in The Awakening
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... -
Answered a Question in The Awakening
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... -
Answered a Question in The Time Machine
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... -
Answered a Question in The Glass Menagerie
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... -
Answered a Question in The War of the Worlds
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... -
Answered a Question in The Road Not Taken
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... -
Answered a Question in The Masque of the Red Death
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,... -
Answered a Question in Brave New World
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...