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  At the beginning of Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams," we learn that Dexter Green's father "owned the second-best grocery store...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Answered a Question in Winter Dreams

  "He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves."

  This line...

• Answered a Question in Winter Dreams

  In F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams," there are many details which indicate that the protagonist, Dexter Green, is...

• 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...

• 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...

• Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter

  There are three key ways that the Biblical King David is like Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet...