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I have a degree in English and American Studies. I have taught Literature in England and America I also worked for one year in the Education Department of The British Film Institute, where I taught film.
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Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
George is a complex man whose character and motives may be analysed at length. However, precious few facts about him are revealed. This is because George is a private man who keeps... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
Holden finds a lot of people 'dishonest and superficial' hence his concept of 'phonies'. A standout example is Sally Hayes who he calls 'the queen of the phonies'. Everything about her he finds... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
Simple distinctions provide a starting point. Nonliterary texts are found in newspapers, magazines, leaflets, advertisements plus popular fiction and nonfiction genres (informational, mass media... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Shakespeare's plays were the popular entertainment of the Elizabethan age: the public would flock to see them in the same way that people flock to the cinema these days. It is not the case that... -
Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
There has to be a lot of truth in this statement referring as it does to the most popular of Christmas tales. The section which most evokes the spirit of Christmas is The Ghost of Christmas... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
'men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars' is a simile which suggests the way people are drawn to the atmosphere of Gtasby's parties like moths... -
Answered a Question in Charles Bukowski
Bukowski had the nickname 'Buke the Puke' bestowed upon him by one literary critic and it stuck. It sums up one of the major criticisms of his work, namely that his subject matter is sordid. His... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
It is interesting that Duncan's death is not shown: other deaths in the play, for example, Banquo's are shown; Roman Polanski's film version graphically depicts Duncan's murder. One reason would be... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
The murder of the King Hamlet is a terrible crime made worse by the fact that the murderer is his brother, Claudius, who then goes on to 'steal' his wife, Gertrude. Throughout the play Hamlet... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
On the surface Gatsby and Wilson are opposites: in contrast to Gatsby, Wilson is impoverished running an unsuccessful garage. Also, while Gatsby possesses immense physical and personal charm,... -
Answered a Question in The Monkey's Paw
The fakir, the Muslim Holy Man, in The Monkey's Paw,wanted 'to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.' Both the White Family and... -
Answered a Question in An Inspector Calls
The triplet 'fire and blood and anguish' are the Inspector's final words before saying 'Goodnight'. They are part of a speech in the style of a sermon, his final attempt to get all the Birlings to... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
The New York City setting allows Holden to fully experience alienation: he is unable to relate to the people he meets, alone in the busiest city in the world. However, he recognises that connecting... -
Answered a Question in The Killers
Ole Andreson is a potential code hero but not complete.Nick Adams is on the road to becoming the complete code hero though still young and learning. Nick bravely confronts evil when he goes to warn... -
Answered a Question in Dulce et Decorum Est
The title and last line translated from the Latin mean It is sweet and honorable, to die for one's country. The use of Latin is appropriate for this classical, epic view of war. It is a... -
Answered a Question in Ernest Hemingway
Modernism demanded that writers experimented in order to find new ways to express difficult new realities. Ernest Hemingway developed his own writing style to express the reality of war. Hemingway... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Uncut books refers to the now probably obsolete practice of books having pages with untrimmed edges which also bind them together. These must be cut before the pages can be seperated, and the book... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
Suitcases are a recurring motif in the book; when Holden meets the nuns, he has just checked his own suitcases into a luggage hold at the station. He feels it's sad that people like the nuns only... -
Answered a Question in An Inspector Calls
Gerald is not a member of the Birling family and his family - his mother isLadyCroft - belong to the aristocracy while the Birlings do not. Gerald's money, unlike the Birlings, is not based on the... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
It is Nick who first comments on Daisy's voice and what he says is 'she's got an indiscreet voice'. Money and indiscretion are both present in her voice and are therefore linked. Her indiscretion... -
Answered a Question in Dulce et Decorum Est
Similes rather than metaphors predominate in the description of the gassed soldier; the central one, as the previous post identifies, is His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin as he...