In this short story, "Hills like White Elephants", Hemingway relies on the use of symbolism throughout the story to describe a very complex issue that has encountered Jig and The American, the main characters in the story. ... The author relies on the symbolism of the title, the setting, and the indecisiveness between the couple to tell his story. First published in 1927, the short-story elaborates on how the couple is traveling through the European country of Spain; Jig unexpectedly finds out she is pregnant and is plagued with the decision to have an abortion. ... Hemingway incorp...

• Word Count: 814
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The title, "Babylon Revisited" is an essential tool in building the theme of Fitzgerald's short story because it gives the reader additional insight into the life that once thrived in Paris. By naming the short story, "Babylon Revisited", the author subtly compares the city of Paris, the actual city in which the main character, Charlie, is visiting, to the great city of Babylon. ... Ultimately the reader takes away from this short story the emptiness felt by Charlie as a result of his materialistic life style in Paris. ... The climax comes not as a single moment of the story, but as an em...

• Word Count: 1051
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The title, "Babylon Revisited" is an essential tool in building the theme of Fitzgerald's short story because it gives the reader additional insight into the life that once thrived in Paris. By naming the short story, "Babylon Revisited", the author subtly compares the city of Paris, the actual city in which the main character, Charlie, is visiting, to the great city of Babylon. ... Ultimately the reader takes away from this short story the emptiness felt by Charlie as a result of his materialistic life style in Paris. ... The climax comes not as a single moment of the story, but as an em...

• Word Count: 1051
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hemingway's short story dates back to almost ninety years ago, initially appearing in a collection titled "Men Without Women" in 1927. ... " The majority of Hemingway's short stories overly demonstrate masculinity, but "Hills Like White Elephants" displays a much more rational viewpoint from that of a woman. ... The white hills in the background of the train offer the most significant example of symbolism in this story. ... Finally, the last example of symbolism Hemingway portrays in this story is the train station itself. ... Hemingway's short story is ...

• Word Count: 1134
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The description of the characters in Of Mice and Men is not entirely objective either, and is not short of hyperbole and exaggeration. ... As a first person narrator is himself immersed in the timeframe of the story, his role will be very different from that of a third person narrator, who is detached from both the events and timeframe of the story. In The Great Gatsby, Nick is unaware of the conclusion of the story and hence is unraveling the story with no pre-set intention in relation depiction of the plot. ... In Of Mice and Men, however, the third person narrator tells the story with the e...

• Word Count: 2039
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gatsby is thus the novel's representative of the American Dream, and the story of his youth borrows on one of the dream's oldest myths: that of the self-made man. ... As Nick puts it, "There must have been moment even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams...no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the flappers started cutting their hair short in bob hair style and wore loose dresses, different from the tight corsets of the Victorian style, they were described as more boyish and less feminine. ... The women celebrate a new era with their short hair, but Krebs seems not to be willing to talk to them. ... Her short hair not only symbolizes the freedom of the women who were not living anymore in a narrow of walls, but it also symbolizes her loss of femininity. ... She consistently lies to Nick and twists the story about her being accused for cheating at a golf tournament. ...

• Word Count: 1622
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From Gatsby wasting his entire life and money on hope of Daisy's return and Myrtle wanting to leave her whole past for Tom, to the artificial fantasy of a perfect life that the Buchanan's appear to have, the most important figures throughout the story represents corruption in one way or another. ... "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion," Nick acclaims in the novel. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby' appears to be just another novel about post world war one America, but viewing it as such would only be scratching the surface of a much deeper, darker and depressing story. ... Gatsby and Daisy could be said to have an unhealthy relationship since Gatsby only had a short relationship with her, a relationship she soon got over, though he never did. ...

• Word Count: 1093
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate