In the "Birthday Party," Katherine Brush shows what- at a glance- seems to be a non-suspicious dinner between a happily, "unmistakably," married couple; yet, when examined closer is obviously a dinner gone wrong. Her use of syntax, along with other literary devices, help show how a book shouldn't be judged by its cover.…
vernacular diction, and specific details to portray a sense of familiarity to the reader. In doing…
It doesn 't seem she cares about school or the people that she hurts. She only cares about being close to someone at all times. “ Any book I gave her she treated like a kid treats a Christmas present---fascination for a day and then the quick pall of boredom; by the end of the week it was flung across the room and submerged” (272).This showed that Charlotte cared about only what she wanted to at certain times. In that case, the people that had relations with her got hurt. Charlotte remained the same towards the end of the story in that she had already hurt two people 's feelings but was in the process of hurting someone else as well. “The guy was some other guy that she 'd been sleeping with on the days when she wasn 't with me” (274). Once again Charlotte 's selfish side rose again. She did this act not caring who was hurt in the…
The following letters constitute the complete correspondence between an executive of the Coca-Cola company and a representative of Grove Press. Read the letters carefully. Then write an essay analyzing the rhetorical strategies each writer uses to achieve his purpose and explaining which letter offers the more persuasive case.…
In the book, Jeannette starts with a scene of her on her way to an event, worried about being over-dressed and sees her mother going through a dumpster. She feels guilty but shamed and gloom as well and realized she was socially privileged and skipped the party to embrace her comfortable home that showed individual influence. Due to this incident, she suddenly starts reminiscing her childhood and how her parents choices affected her.…
A major aspect that Charlotte Perkins Gilman utilizes in order to show that the narrator is suffering from an illness is through…
Cited: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Project Gutenberg ed. [New York]: Feminist, 1973. PDF.…
Edelstein, Sari. “Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Wallpaper.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 24.1 (2007): 72. Academic OneFile (InfoTrac). Web. 11 Nov 2011.…
I choose to analyze this text not only the dialogue between Deborah, a nine-year-old, and Miss Sherry but…
In the story, Marian, "a young Campfire girl", sets out a visit to the Old Lady House. She wears "a red coat and her straight yellow hair is hanging down loose from the pointed white cap all the little girls are wearing this year." This suggests us that she is not a self-conscious individual. She pays the visit for unquestioning duty since all other campfire girls do so. Her motive is also for the points, which reward on her project. The author also gives way to Marian's selfish nature when she states to the nurse that "I have to pay a visit to some old lady." She shows little respect in the way she phrases her statement. By saying she has to pay a visit reinforces us think that she is there not of her own free will. She does not care who she visits, just as long as the person is an elderly woman.…
These self-propelled illusions were stimulated, to a large extent, by the literary foundation on which her brain was working, mixed by anxiety and suppression of ideas. Charlotte liked to imagine things and one might be able to do restrict the mode of communication of one’s perceptions but they are not able to prevent the expressions that speak out one way or the other. Instead of easing the nervousness and anxiety that had caused the problem, the scheme of treatment enforced on Charlotte clashed with her personality. She was more of an independent sort of a person where the idea of concealing one’s worries under the pretext of easing mental stress deceives natural evolution of ideas. The consequence, as we see in this account, is a severe alteration of the mental disorder, marked by disfiguration in metamorphic sense of…
Mrs. Wilson is a housewife and a very prejudiced woman. Because of her subtle racism and prejudgment, she assumes that the black boy, Boyd, is poor. She is confused and offended when the, assumed, poor black boy denies her gifts. In her eyes he should be grateful; “There are many little…
A letter between man and wife has the capacity to be powerful, intimate and beautiful. However, in the case of Arthur's letter to Lauchlin in the opening pages of Andrea Barrett's Ship Fever, the language Arthur uses when addressing his wife Susanna is cold and removed. Due to the circumstances of Arthur overseas and Susanna at home in Quebec, letter writing proved to be the only possible form of communication between them at the time. While the exchange of letters provides the writer with the ability to have slow and indirect communication with the receiver, Arthur distanced himself from his wife and chose to address his letter to Lauchlin instead. Thus, in this instance, letter writing served as a barrier between Susanna and Arthur; Arthur not only fails to write his wife directly, but also mentions her to Lauchlin in a brief and obtuse manner. Upon receiving the letter, Lauchlin, who seemingly has more compassion for Susanna than Arthur does, chooses to appease Susanna and deliver the letter’s message in a more sympathetic manner. Ultimately, the way in which Arthur communicates, or fails to communicate with his wife signifies a distant and problematic relationship between them that continues to manifest itself in the remainder of the novella.…
One day, after the asylum's trustees have made their monthly visit, Judy is informed by the asylum's dour matron that one of the trustees has offered to pay her way through college. He has spoken to her former teachers and thinks she has potential to become an excellent writer. He will pay her tuition and also give her a generous monthly allowance. Judy must write him a monthly letter, because he believes that letter-writing is important to the development of a writer. However, she will never know his identity; she must address the letters to Mr. John Smith, and he will never reply.…
The mother of the author, Mrs. S was a lady of simplicity. She didn’t seem to have seen the harsh and cruel side of this two-faced world. She could easily befriend people, and rather more easily, trust them. That’s why she trusted Mrs. Dorling, who was just an acquaintance of her, and allowed her to keep all her precious belongings for the time being. Moreover, she was so kindhearted that she was sympathetic enough for Mrs. Dorling, who had to carry all her heavy articles all alone. In contrast, Mrs. Dorling was an absolute thief, a unique combination of cunningness and betrayal. She cheated Mrs. S and seized her very precious belongings very wittingly. She can be called a perfectionist in this ‘occupation’ of hers.…