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Zuckerman the Unreliable

American Pastoral is narrated by Philip Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman, a friend and admirer of the Levovs, in particular of Seymour “The Swede” Levov. Zuckerman tells the story of The Swede’s tragic fall from youthful perfection due to his daughter’s act of terrorism in protest of...

American Literature 3 Pages

"Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination"

Reading Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison thoughtfully explores the importance of African Americans in the American literary imagination. Morrison shares her concerns with American language and the American literary imagination being both characteristically white, and questions the impact of...

American Literature Literary Criticism Literature 1 Page

Edith Wharton, Alice Walker, and Women Mentality

Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence [1] and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple [2] both paint a portrait American culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This culture appears to be male, with no room for the female as any manifestation other than...

Alice Walker American Literature The Age of Innocence 12 Pages

Stylistic Analysis of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck’s novels The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men enable readers to capture a glimpse of the time of the Great Depression in the United States. In The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family of Oklahoma, accompanied by thousands of other farming...

American Literature Grapes of Wrath Grapes of Wrath Theme John Steinbeck 4 Pages

Full Moon Analysis

The moon, something we see in the sky every day and every night if the moon could talk it would tell tales older than humanity itself. Since the dawn of man, the moon has always been a mystery to all. The beauty captivates us with...

American Literature Literature Review Poetry 2 Pages

Response Regarding Images and Fiction

Looking back on the mountain-view that was described as the main character’s of Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers caught sight of Templeton, their hometown, in the distance, Elizabeth, the primary female character, “felt as if all the loveliness of the mountain-view had vanished like the fancies...

American Literature History 2 Pages

Camaraderie: Choosing a Person’s Destiny

Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, two novels published concurrently by John Steinbeck, both depict camaraderie between dust bowl migrants. The main characters in Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie, form a bond, while struggling to reach their goal, a small...

American Literature Grapes of Wrath Grapes of Wrath Theme John Steinbeck 2 Pages

The Professor’s Release in Cather’s The Professor’s House

The 1920s is an era somewhat paradoxically described as an anachronistic one rife with social upheaval. Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House sheds light on this awkward time as she details the life of Godfrey St. Peter, an academic caught between the past and the future,...

American Literature Novel 2 Pages

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

What if death was painless to bear? What if people never cared whether they lived or died? For protagonist Susie in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold she struggles with her unexpected and unfortunate murder as she seeks closure and euphoria. King Hamlet in Hamlet...

American Literature Literature Novel 5 Pages

The Problem of Conformism in Age of Innocence

“Ah, don’t say that. If you knew how I hate to be different!” (Wharton 69). Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is, to Newland Archer, the perfect example of an exciting rebel to the mores of society in the New York aristocracy. He...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence 6 Pages

In Depth Reading Of Emily Dickinson

In Depth Reading of Emily Dickinson In Walt Witman’s “Leaves of Grass” section 32, he speaks of turning and living with animals. I find his work very intriguing, like reading a good novel, with loads of hidden meaning. He speaks of the animals, by saying...

American Literature Emily Dickinson 5 Pages

Ethicality in Flannery O'Connor

Who doesn’t want to be a good human being? Being good could bring one to happiness, joy, faith, and grace. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, however, reveals a satiric reality in which not many people fully understand the fundamental meaning...

American Literature 3 Pages

The Age of Innocence: The Role of Conventions in Society

Although Edith Wharton describes a society that had disappeared in order to make way for the progress of a later age, she both criticizes and lauds the unrecoverable culture that helped to define New York City in the 1870s. Throughout The Age of Innocence, she...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence 3 Pages