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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 in Black Bear," the small town where Dexter lives. Unlike...

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...

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...

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...

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...