Soon after her birth, her family moved several times to various Quaker communities in the rural south, which would eventually show through in her somewhat Southern literary style. ... In most of Tyler's novels, the main characters struggle and, at the same time, depend on their families. ... Perhaps one of Tyler's greatest family novels is If Morning Ever Comes, a story about a home that is "cluttered with people and objects and becoming the place characters often leave and always miss" (DISCovering Authors). ... In Tyler's second novel, The Tin Can Tree, the feeling of stagn...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Outside of the novel's boundaries, Woolf addresses the reoccurring theme of uncertainty by writing a novel that defies being categorized as a product of a specific genre or literary period. ... Between each of the novel's three sections, there is an evolving sense of time that both speeds up and slows down in rhythm with the development of the characters and plotline. Theoretically, this change in pace is reflective of the transition from a modernist to a postmodernist literary style. ...

• Word Count: 869
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He remarks "You and I have different role to play-, likening the situation to a literary scenario where the characters have clearly defined roles that evidently supports his behavior. ... Brian, the only male character to defy prejudices, reveals his homosexuality to Ellen challenging the roles of customary males. ... When Kate slowly becomes an invalid, the inadequacy of fixed roles is revealed, as imbalance becomes evident and a characters assurance is uncovered by Quindlen to be misguided. ...

• Word Count: 844
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He remarks "You and I have different role to play-, likening the situation to a literary scenario where the characters have clearly defined roles that evidently supports his behavior. ... Brian, the only male character to defy prejudices, reveals his homosexuality to Ellen challenging the roles of customary males. ... When Kate slowly becomes an invalid, the inadequacy of fixed roles is revealed, as imbalance becomes evident and a characters assurance is uncovered by Quindlen to be misguided. ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Death of a Salesman" The play death of a salesman can be easily explained as a literary way of detailing the psychological deterioration of the classic middle class working American man. ... Willie's second major character flaw being his frequent and strange exaggerations of the truth. ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate