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    Susan Minot's Lust

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    Literary Analysis of Susan Minot’s “Lust” In Susan Minot’s short story “Lust” the reader is taken through the journey of one girl’s various relationships‚ some better than others‚ watching the love fade away. The narrator talks about her first boyfriends‚ the first one she saw nude‚ the fast illegal car driving one‚ etc. She talks about college and the various experiences she had with guys there. She is starting to feel “watered down.” There is no more emotion in her relationships. She ends with

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    Susan Bordo Women

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    advertisements and commercials almost as much as five‚ ten‚ and even twenty years ago. But of course now modern people have changed their opinions and thoughts almost on everything‚ advertisement included. And they have changed also. In "Hunger as Ideology"‚ Susan Bordo talks about her view on commercials and gives us the gender-dualities‚ which she thinks are traditional for ads. In her essay Bordo examined the historical stereotype of women; the portrayals that have arrested them‚ turning their psychological

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    Trifles I Want A Wife

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    Trifles and I Want A Wife are allegories explaining the oppression of being a woman and a wife. Women being assumed to work in the house show that gender stereotypes do exist. After the men leave the kitchen‚ the women discuss things about Mrs. Wright such as who she was before she had met her husband; Minnie Foster. Mrs. Peters then questions the request Mrs. Wright makes for her apron‚ “She said she wanted an apron. Funny thing to want‚ for there isn’t much to get you dirty in jail‚ goodness knows

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    Susan Sontag Analysis

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    When comparing the descriptive technique of Susan Sontag’s On Photography book between ALL MY LIFE FOR SALE by John D. Freyer and eBay‚ we will find that Mr. Freyer demonstrated a merely subjective description that was mentored solely by his own point of view. The assumption that “every photographer should read this book” in the beginning of his description‚ and asserting this assumption later by using an overstated sentence like: “Even the mom and pop photographers”‚ and further emphasizing by generalizing

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    Ashes By Susan Pfeffer

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    The Coldness of Ashes Susan Pfeffer’s story “Ashes” teaches a lesson about how trust is decided on past‚ not relationships. Ashleigh‚ “Ashes”‚ with divorced parents‚ talks about how when she is with her dad‚ the sun shines just a little bit brighter‚ but according to her mother‚ he is just an “irresponsible bum”. Ashes was a nickname her father gave her‚ which her mother hates. Ashes‚ says that her father hardly ever keeps a promise‚ such as when she was a kid‚ he told her that the stars were

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    There is irony in the title of the play. Trifles would mean things without importance or overlooked‚ even not needed; and yet the wife‚ the kitchen‚ the dead bird are all the most important elements of the drama. The kitchen is where the most important lines take place‚ the wife overlooked takes control‚ and the quilt and the dead bird tell the real story of the Wright home. There is irony in the focus on the activity of her hands "pleating" her apron‚ this is mentioned several times by Lewis Hale

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    Trifles” Literary Response and Analysis Questions Directions: Read the questions carefully. Respond to each thoroughly‚ insightfully and correctly in complete sentences. Answers are worth two points each. 1. What attitudes toward women do the Sheriff and the County Attorney express? How do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters react to these statements? 2. Why does the County Attorney care so much about discovering a motive for the killing? 3. What does Glaspell show

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    both take steps in order to take control of their lives. In both plays‚ the women come to a realization of a woman’s true meaning in life‚ which was not known before that. In A Doll’s House‚ the realization comes to Nora‚ but later in the play. In "Trifles"‚ the realization comes to Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters who were witnesses to their neighbors abuse. In A Doll’s House‚ Nora is married to Torvald‚ controls every aspect of her from her spending habits to what she wears to the ball. By the end of the

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    Lust By Susan Minot

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    around the world suffers from low self-esteem and low self-confidence that could lead to depression‚ which we all know have endless serious repercussions. It’s a domino effect. What you do to others‚ others do unto another. “Lust”‚ a short story by Susan Minot‚ tackles certain cancers of the society that are passed on to the new generation including the question of self worth‚ the still existing misogynistic views of people‚ and the issue on double standards. “Lust” begins with a narrator whose characterization

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    Lust By Susan Minot

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    writer’s expression of attitude and feelings towards his or her readers. By tone‚ the readers are able to understand the mood of the story. Both the styles are important in this study to demonstrate their usages in a piece of literature. Lust by Susan Minot demonstrates the effective use of style and tone.

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