
Tara Gilstrap
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I am an English professor at a small liberal arts college and focus on Southern literature, World literature, and composition.
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Answered a Question in Winter Dreams
At the beginning of Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams," Dexter, the main character, is a teenager who works as a caddie at the local country club golf course. He sees Judy Jones, then a... -
Answered a Question in Spoon River Anthology
In Poem 88 of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, we hear the voice of Mrs. Charles Bliss, a woman who wants to divorce her husband but who is advised against it by her preacher and a... -
Answered a Question in Spoon River Anthology
In the poem "Jacob Goodpasture" by Edgar Lee Masters, we hear the voice of an old father mourning the loss of his soldier son. At the opening of the poem, Goodpasture mentions Fort Sumter and "the... -
Answered a Question in Half of a Yellow Sun
In the novel Half of a Yellow Sun, one of the main characters is Odenigbo, a mathematics professor at the University of Nskukka in Nigeria. Odenigbo is highly intelligent, forceful, and passionate... -
Answered a Question in Winter Dreams
"He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering peopleāhe wanted the glittering things themselves." This line from the second section of Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" describes what... -
Answered a Question in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" has few key characters. They are listed and described below: Pelayo and Elisenda: the couple at whose house the Old Man... -
Answered a Question in The Joy Luck Club
A simile makes a comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as." The purpose of a simile is to help the reader better understand an idea by making a comparison to something she... -
Answered a Question in Mending Wall
In Frost's poem "Mending Wall," the speaker says that nature does not love a stone wall and will gradually tear it down. Ice creates gaps in the stones and the unfreezing topples them from the... -
Answered a Question in Chickamauga
In Ambrose Bierce's short story "Chickamauga," a little boy wanders into a Civil War battle while he is pretending to be a soldier. The little boy feels terrified as he wanders through the woods;... -
Answered a Question in The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's story "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," a mysterious dead man shows up on the beach of a small town. No one in the town recognizes this man and the town is so... -
Answered a Question in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's tale "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," the story centers upon the strange and magical appearance of an old man who has huge vulture-like wings. Early in the story,... -
Answered a Question in The Story of an Hour
In this very short story by Kate Chopin, there are several examples of how the setting reinforces the way Mrs. Mallard feels after she learns about her husband's death. At the opening of the story,... -
Answered a Question in Langston Hughes
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that focuses on their similarities. A metaphor does not use the words "like" or "as" in the way a simile, which also compares two things, does. A... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
In William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily," the town watches for years for a sign of Miss Emily while she remains closed up in her house with only a servant to tend to her. Finally, she...