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Death Of A Salesman : A Social Criticism
Number of Words: 1784 / Number of Pages: 7
... entertain the possibility of finding a job more suitable to his talents, even though perhaps he could function as a member of society if he did; and he lives in a deluded bubble, angry, self-righteous, too proud for his own good... qualities that simply do not survive in America's production-based, time-crunch, fast-food and fast talk society.
The play opens with Linda, the loving and ever-supportive wife, welcoming Willy home from another grueling and fruitless day's work. Linda loves her husband even though she knows "Willy is essentially a self-deluded man who has lost the power to distinguish be ...
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Ethan Frome: Poor Surroundings, Poor Life
Number of Words: 804 / Number of Pages: 3
... (pg.11). Naturalism even played a huge part of Ethan’s life since he was young. First “his father got a kick, out haying, and went soft in the brain, and gave away money like Bible texts afore he died.” (pg.13). Then his “...mother got queer and dragged along for years as weak as a baby...” (pg.13). Ethan Frome never had a chance in life to make it better because every possible bad thing happened to him.
The second character named Zeena had her life doomed when she started to take care of Ethan’s Mom when she got sick. After Ethan’s Mom died Zeena married Ethan and lived with him on “...th ...
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True Son
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... get very far, they were caught. A while later, True Son became ill
and did not seem to get better with the medicines that the Whites had. One
night Gordie told True son that some Indians had been seen in the town.
Once he was left alone in his room, True Son put on his Indian clothes and
went out the window to meet his people.
He finds Half Arrow who had come with another Indian, Little Crane
who was married to a white that was taken to live with her real family.
True Son's uncle had seen Little Crane and scalped him. True Son and Half
Arrow tried to kill the uncle in revenge but were almost kil ...
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The Great Gatsby: A Total Failure
Number of Words: 798 / Number of Pages: 3
... out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.”(Fitzgerald. p174) Gatsby could only express himself in terms of money or rather his wealth represented him as a man of high status. He had no respect for himself because he went around telling people lies about himself and his family and the way he based his life he would be a nobody without his money.
Gatsby failed to understand that a materialistic woman like Daisy would never truly love him. Gatsby had to leave Daisy when he went to war. (Fitzgerald. p66). Daisy got married to Tom because she was impressed by his wealth. Jordan ...
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The Pearl By Steinbeck
Number of Words: 439 / Number of Pages: 2
... sell it for a big profit. Kino now realized that this pearl was becoming a problem but he didn't care. His motives revovled around greed which was shown throughout the story. Kino encounters many other obstacles in his journey to sell the pearl such as theieves and his wife. Kino who was described as a very loving and caring man at the beginning of the novel hit his wife because she wanted to get rid of the pearl. He was being driven by greed and jealosy of what others in society had. In the end Kino's son Coyoito was shot as a result of theives looking for the pearl.
Kino's heart's desire ...
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The Neurosis Of Passion
Number of Words: 1941 / Number of Pages: 8
... and utterly absurd.
The female first described in Great Expectations is Pip’s deceased mother. Having never seen his parents he imagines his mother as "freckled and sickly" (Dickens, 3). The novel thus begins with a negative image of women and motherhood. Later Pip introduces his sister and mother substitute, Mrs. Joe Gargery describing her as harsh and unapproachable, far from the mother of Victorian fantasy. In Mrs. Joe’s marriage to Joe the typical male and female roles are reversed. This reversal is pointed out to the reader through her very name to which Dickens affixes the t ...
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A Mind To Murder
Number of Words: 1478 / Number of Pages: 6
... is also a gifted painter, and is only working at the clinic to pay his living expenses while he waits for a prestigious arts grant to come his way. However, Peter is infected with the arrogance of those who feel that their talent entitles them to liberties unavailable to the rest of society. He lives in a magnificent studio apartment, and owns only the very best painting equipment. He obviously cannot afford this on a clinic-porter’s salary, so he figures out a way to, with Marion Bolam’s help, blackmail former patients into paying him fifteen pounds each per month in return for his s ...
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An Autobiographical Portrayal
Number of Words: 1911 / Number of Pages: 7
... produced a lively musical comedy each fall, and
performed it during the Christmas vacation in a dozen major cities across
the country. Fitzgerald was also elected to “Cottage,” which was one of the
big four clubs at Princeton. “Its lavish weekend parties in impressive
surroundings, which attracted girls from New York, Philadelphia and beyond,
may well have provided the first grain of inspiration for Fitzgerald’s
portrayal of Jay Gatsby’s fabulous parties on Long Island” (Meyers, 27).
Although Fitzgerald was a “social butterfly” whil ...
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Animal Farm By George Orwell
Number of Words: 1495 / Number of Pages: 6
... Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168). Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. He represents the symbol of the Czar Nicholas in Russia who tr ...
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Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six
Number of Words: 1476 / Number of Pages: 6
... important later on in the book.
Clark is the commander and in charge of starting a new European anti-terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is split into two teams; Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the best there is. They are based in Hereford, England, but any European country can call on them at any time. They run 3 miles in 20 minutes every morning at 6:00 am. Only one team will be on-call at a time. The team that is not on-call will be doing live fire practices. In the first 6 months of being in operation they are called on three times which is a lot for this type of thing. Th ...
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