It also shows us that women are inferior to men because several of the women in the story must rely on someone other than themselves. ... He shows this when the main character and his friends go out to the bars and on the way home having failed at picking up any women, stop by the local gay club and points a plastic gun at them, just to see if they would run or shit their pants (103). ... Having to deal with no positive father figure in his life, he tries to find other means of positive influences, just to come up short. ... Beto teaches him how to do it smoothly while talking to mall secur...

• Word Count: 1166
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

How could people live a life like that? ... Hutchinson it is she who is shown to pick up a huge rock and persuades people to stone Tessie to death. ... Men and women of the village are gathered together talking about taxes and farming. ... In the story of "The Lottery" it definitely shows how cruel people can be to each other. It shows how tradition, symbolism and settings relate to the story. ...

• Word Count: 556
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I thought that's where this story was going, because that's how the author sets it up. But even before the tragic end to this story, I started to pick up on some unusual things. ... Something I noticed was that the women would refer to their husbands as their "old man". ... These people have been growing up in this village for probably their whole lives and each year they take the chance, live or die. ...

• Word Count: 519
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Misfit proves that good men are hard to find, because he ends up killing the innocent family, and he knows he did wrong but did it out of spit. ... The women O" Conner uses in the stories are very old fashioned. ... This contradiction between the mother and the father's mother showed how they view their place in society. ... Freeman suggest that women in their time and society wanted to be "free" and needed "hope." ... There is so much symbolic meaning to each of the stories and how they interact with each other it is difficult to pick out a certain theme or point being express...

• Word Count: 685
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In his short story "A & P" John Updike utilizes a 19-year-old male to show us how a boy gets one-step closer to adulthood. ... He describes her as being " One of these cash-register-watchers, a witch of about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up," sarcastically conveying his chauvinistic attitude toward women. ... He is a simple checker at a small town A & P, not moving up in his job or down, simply stagnant. ... The queen answers, "My mother asked me to pick up a jar of herring snacks." ... Sammy comes to this realization wit...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As I read this story the first time I thought how strange, but as I read it again and again I started pick up bits and pieces of what the author was trying to convey. ... It is amazing how our lives can change in the course of an hour. I wonder how the story would be different if it had been Mr. ... Then how would the story be different? ... In her stories Chopin explores the special problems and dilemmas that women often face. ...

• Word Count: 721
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The only emotion that they really seem to show is one of a slight uneasiness when the actual picking of the slips of paper begins. One of the women, Mrs. ... Even when the townspeople found out that it was Tess Hutchinson who was to die, they just hurried up to get their stones and throw them at her so that they could get on with their day. ... Things like this show how desensitized the adults of the community really had become. ... She starts screaming about how things are unfair. ...

• Word Count: 717
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

After the girls exit, Sammy is left feeling "how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter" (Updike 17). ... Her father and the other men were standing around in ice-cream coats and bow ties and the women were in sandals picking up herring snacks on toothpicks off a big glass plate and they were all holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them. ... Even though Sammy struggles to maintain the rebellious, juvenile delinquent character that up to this point he has portrayed, he soon realizes the error of his actions when he steps outside t...

• Word Count: 1410
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This is a haunting tale of passion, privilege and biting physical labour, of men and women moved by compassion and driven by the power of dreams - sometimes even to murder. ... "Clara and Ambrose and Alice and Temelcoff and Cato- this cluster made up a drama without him. ... He takes on Alice's quest to dissolve the power of the rich by blowing up the Muskoka Hotel. ... They also help build up his identity and true self. ... It talks about the people he meets and how they change his life. ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School