One would look at the main character in the novel, The Great Gatsby, and see a man exhuding confidence and esteem. Mr. Jay Gatsby though, was filled with inner turmoil, longing and obsession. His life was sustained on one minute hope, a dream that was never fully realized, even whe he thought it was in his grasp. Maybe, though, Gatsby's life co...
Nelly. More than a servant! Why was Nelly the narrator? In the book Wuthering Heights, the author, Emily Bronte, made Nelly a servant who lives most of her life with Catherine the narrator. Many have questioned why Bronte would do so, and they have valid reasons such as : Why didn't she choose someone with more knowledge, or why didn't th...
Franny And Zooey & The Razor?s Edge Many novels use religion as the central object of their plot. Franny and Zooey, by J.D Salinger and The Razor?s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham both display religion as having they key role in their novels. Religion is the main guide in Franny and Zooey and The Razor?s Edge for the search of meaning. Du...
By: Joe Clark By John Steinbeck In , John Steinbeck describes the unholy community of 1920s Monterey, California. is a street that depends on canning sardines. It is where all the outcasts of society reside. Steinbeck himself, in the first sentence of the book, describes as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a...
By: Annette Irizarry The Parallels Between Two Families 'It is morning again, and she is still here...' These are the words D.H. Lawrence wrote to a friend describing his terminally ill mother in 1913. 'I look at my mother and think 'O Heaven-is this what life brings us to?' You see mother has had a devilish married life, for nearly forty y...