average‚ everyday life. During the late 1900 century‚ female realist writers such as Kate Chopin and Willa Cather portrays the roles and duties that women play in society. Women are expected to make unconditional sacrifices and fulfill the happiness of their family. The only responsibilities they have are cooking‚ cleaning‚ and caring for their loved ones. The short story “Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather and “A pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin specify the significant sacrifices women are expected
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Willa Cather‚ from “The Joy of Nelly Deane” (p. 223) Willa Cather writes the story of The Joy of Nelly Deane‚ describing Nelly’s joy as “unquenchable‚” especially‚ Nelly’s joy attracted all the Baptist ladies who admired the prettiest girl in Riverbend‚ Nebraska (Cather‚ p. 225). Nelly fluttered from one social event to another‚ parties‚ picnics and dances‚ and sings like a “prima-donna” in the Baptist Church choir‚ where she met Peggy‚ the narrator of the story. Peggy was named‚ by the Baptist
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Death Comes for the Archbishop By Willa Cather Willa Cather is the author of the award winning novel Death Comes For The Archbishop written in 1927. She was born in 1873 near Winchester‚ Virginia and soon moved to Nebraska (Cather‚ 1927). During her childhood she was surrounded by foreign languages and customs. Even at her young age she felt a connection to the immigrants in Nebraska and was intrigued with their connection to the land. Willa also loved writing about the vanished past of
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Women in the early nineteenth century were viewed as the weaker sex and their only job was to take care of the domestic chores (wic). Women had to be delicate‚ well behave and well-polished. In Willa Cather’s book‚ “My Antonia”‚ Antonia is a bohemian immigrant who comes to America with her family to start a new life.She becomes close friends with a boy name Jim who helps her learn english and together they have adventures out in the prairie. Jim sees Antonia as a lovely girl but soon changes his
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of the Past in My Antonia “Some memories are realities‚ and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again”; this quote by Willa Cather expresses the relationship that the past can have on humans. Some would argue that the past has no role in My Antonia‚ almost as if the overall lesson of the novel had gone right over their head. Willa Cather has written the whole novel in flashback form‚ and this has a great effect on the reader. She is trying to show that you can learn from your
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"Paul ’s Case": A Narcissistic Personality Disorder By Rob Saari Willa Cather ’s title "Paul ’s Case" (1905) invites us to ponder the question‚ "What exactly is Paul ’s Case?" Cather immediately informs us that Paul ’s case is mysterious. His own father is "perplexed" about his son ’s behavior‚ and the school faculty‚ who meet with Paul to discuss his recent suspension‚ speak of Paul with such "rancor" and "aggrievedness" that it is obvious that Paul ’s is "not a usual case" (221). At first‚ it
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The Character of Paul in Willa Cather’s "Paul’s Case" Pulitzer Prize winner author Willa Cather’s story Paul’s Case tells the story of a boy‚ Paul‚ who is disgusted by his current situation. He admires and envies the wealthy people that he encounters during his employment as an usher at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh‚ and considers their lives to be perfect. He is suspended from school early in the story for being disruptive‚ that is‚ voicing his opinions on school and anything else he considers below
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Young Goodman Brown vs. Paul After studying the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s "Young Goodman Brown" and Willa Cather ’s "Paul ’s Case"‚ I began to see many similarities within the two stories. Both of the main characters in each story have characteristics that could be looked at as being alike‚ but after analyzing each character I started to find that although alike in some aspects‚ these two characters are very different from one another. At first I noticed that both Goodman Brown
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it as a place being taken over by tourists/white people or saying that it’s a dangerous place to be. Some written works that have glorified New York City are “The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man” by James Weldon Johnson and “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather. Some literary works that have de-glorified the city are “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin and “When the Negro was in Vogue” by Langston
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even goes so far to describe his feelings while returning to his home with “a shudder of loathing…he felt the waters close above his head” (Cather 215). This so strongly worded description of Paul’s perception of Cordelia Street provides the framework for the conflicting issues of Paul’s emotional bipolar feelings between Pittsburg and New
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