She was a deeply religious woman who felt the need to sometimes horrify the reader with wild characters and her startling endings in order to get across her theological ideas. ... Spivey, Regents' Professor English Emeritus at Georgia State University, wrote "With a mind steeped in religious thought, Miss O'Connor goes beyond philosophy to theology in order to deal with what she would call man's most important problem, his relationship with God [...] " (255). ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: High School

But are Dame's wild accusations about her husband true? ... The villagers are so upset with this statement that they call him a British spy even after crying out that he is harmless and wouldn't do anything to hurt anybody. ...

• Word Count: 1834
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Mallard receives the news, she "wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment" (Mays 476), but then she comes to see and feel what it would be like to be a widow and free from marriage oppression. ... As a treatment for her "temporary nervous depression", the unnamed protagonist's husband, John, takes her to a summer house where the narrator is kept in a nursery room decorated with yellow wallpaper, which strange patters seemed to call the protagonist's attention and become an obsession for her to decipher who or what is behind that wallpaper that makes it to do unn...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
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