After her walk through San Narcisco and the constant appearance of Trystero's post horn, Pynchon uses personification and diction to illustrate how the overbearing puzzle and the pressure to solve it mentally paralyzes Oedipa: But the private eye sooner or later has to be beat up on. ...

• Word Count: 3055
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Depression, melancholy, disillusionment, and disconnectedness are the burning emotions churning in young Hamlet's soul as he attempts to come to terms with his father's death and his mother's incestuous, illicit marriage. While Hamlet tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered idealism, he conscio...

• Word Count: 4821
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School