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- 1381: The Count Of Monte Cristo
- ... had long ago with Madam Danglars. He also revealed to him, by hints, that he knows about the illegitimate child whom he fathered, a child whom Villefront had believed to be buried alive. The child lived, however, and was now engaged to Mademoiselle Danglars, who is really his half-sister. Ironically, Villefront's wives proves to be more villainous than her husband, for she poisons her parents and her daughter so ...
- 1382: The Chrysanthemums
- ... dress which was the symbol of her prettiness. She worked carefully on her hair, penciled her eyebrows and rouged her lips." All this because one man took interest in her private pleasure…chrysanthemums. Because she lived such a secluded life as a housewife, Elisa apparently never made the effort before to look pretty, as seen when her husband "stops short," looks at her and says, "Why-why, Elisa. You look so ...
- 1383: The Cherry Orchard
- ... difficult because they fail to understand each other and because they passively submit to their environmental situations without making an effort to rise above them. Lyuboff is the owner of the cherry orchard, and has lived there her whole life. The estate has been handed down through the generations, and Lyuboff has been left to take care of it. Since Lyuboff has grown up wealthy, she has not learned to manage ...
- 1384: The Cathedral
- ... misreads the situations in the world around him. Notwithstanding, the narrator’s emotional blindness can be seen most clearly in his inability to comprehend Robert and Beulah’s relationship. The narrator muses, "They’d married, lived and worked together, slept together…and then the blind man had to bury her. All this without his having ever seen what the goddamned woman looked like." (Carver 1054) Here, the narrator’s preoccupation with ...
- 1385: The Book Of Sand
- ... for the world's existence. Borges is saying that it is an endless search and therefore pointless. The Other is the story of Borges sitting on a bench, as he feels as though he had lived that moment already. He begins to speak to the man seated besides him, and finds out the stranger has the same name, and the same address as he does. When Borges asks the man what ...
- 1386: The Bluest Eye
- ... pee mixing together in the night as they wet their beds. . . they clowned on the playgrounds, broke things in dime stores, ran in front of you on the street. . . grass wouldn't grow where they lived. Flowers died. Like flies they hovered; like flies they settled"(92). Although the Mobile girls are black themselves, they ". . .got rid of the funkiness. The dreadful funkiness of passion, the funkiness of nature, the funkiness ...
- 1387: The Bean Trees
- ... them with housing, food, and medical attention whenever needed. She knows the consequences involved, and yet she perseveringly volunteers to give these people sanction. "There was another whole set of people who spoke Spanish and lived with her for various lengths of time. I asked her about them once, and she asked me something like had I ever heard of a sanctuary."(Kingsolver 105) It’s amazing how Mattie’s morals ...
- 1388: The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
- ... with him into the city and go to see "movie-flicks" with him. Before the story ends, Marvin Macy is released from prison and returns to Cheehaw. Cousin Lymon, unaware of Miss Amelia's short-lived marriage to the criminal is fascinated by Marvin's adventurous life. He leaves Miss Amelia, never having returned her love, to travel with Marvin. Broken-hearted, Miss Amelia returns to her original reclusive style of ...
- 1389: The Awakening
- ... philosophy states that working for another's good or sacrificing your self for another's happiness goes against the very nature of existence. Edna was not engaged in the pursuit of her finest abilities. She lived her life for others, not for herself. In the initial text it states that "Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-women," she did not truly fit that profile until further along in the novel. For ...
- 1390: The Awakening
- ... They had strong family ties because of Catholicism and were a tight community because they where considered outcasts of Anglo- American society. Clement Eaton says that "the Creoles, to a greater degree then Anglo-Americans, lived a life of sensation and careless enjoyment. They loved to dance, gamble, fish, attend feasts, play on the fiddle and to live without much thought of the morrow." Eaton 252 Creoles were very lively outgoing ...
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