In other words, women were not able to do anything but to be excellent housewives for their husband. ... Kate Chopin exemplifies in the short story her beliefs in the role of women in marriage and feminine identity ("The Story of an Hour" 263). ... Louise realizes then that that feeling was freedom: "When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. ... Other readers, most of them women, "sympathize with Louise's desire for freedom" (Chopin 97). ... At first, Gilman had difficulties getting the story published, but after it got published,...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

She swung full around toward her husband so she could not see the little covered wagon and the mismatched team as the car passed them. ... The author has a belief that women, no matter how strong their attributes are, will always have that emotional side that can suddenly be expressed once her values, whether actual things or moralistic thoughts, are affected. Every person may have this emotional side, not to exclude males, but it is the level of expression that women show is what the author is trying to portray in the entire short story. This is why there are many occasions in the story tha...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.... "Trifles," a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, is a simple story of little things. Trifles are defined as "things of little value or importance." ... Continuing on, the two women, Mrs. ... Little did he know, a simple joke proved to be truer then he'd thought. ...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His belief that women are below him causes Anson to be arrogant and conclusive about the women he meets. ... In short, Anson only likes the idea of women. ... Paula represents all women, because how Anson treats her is how he feels about women in general. ... When they separate and Paula tours around the East she writes him letters, "When he saw a man's name in her letters he felt more sure of her and a little disdainful- he was always superior to such things."" ... Anson's character and background effects the way he treats women. ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

I have very little experience outside my research with graphic novels. ... I was able to really connect with the main character because of the fact that we are both young, ambitious, and strong women. ... One theme of Persepolis that separates it from most of the novels we read, and one that I really appreciated, was women and femininity. As a feminist, I enjoy books that are meant to empower girls and change the view of women that society has had. ... If I were a teacher I would use this book to show cultural diversity, gender differences, and even a little history. ...

• Word Count: 1310
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Growing up in Puritan times it was believed that women were to be seen and not heard. ... This quotation exemplifies how women were portrayed as fragile. ... The image of pink ribbons forces one to think of a little girl with pigtails playing with her dolls in the backyard. ... Women were not allowed to go into the dark and dangerous woods. ... When he finds out that this women practices witchery he is dumbfounded that a women, who is supposed to be "pious" and "exemplary" would be involved with such things. ...

• Word Count: 1338
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Once, she was compared into Hilda by two elderly women. ... Thus, this arises in the question about the role of women in society - their true responsibilities. ... And now you lay across your knees a pocket-handkerchief into which drops little angular fragments of eggshell - fragments of a map - a puzzle. ... These statements imply that women and men can be at peace, be unified, since sons (who are considered to be men) came from mothers (who are considered women). ... What an adorable world we would have lived if men and women are equal! ...

• Word Count: 1423
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The women's uninterested, not so negative, attitude comes clearly up many times. ... "Insane" is a very strong expression and shows a strong hatred against the woman as well as his thought a little later "The whole trouble with her was she needed something weaker than she was to heckle and tyrannize over" (p. 88). ... (p. 237) Women think that men are not capable of experiencing and feeling the sorrow as deeply as women. ... I think that the word "bawl" even contains contempt for the women's behaviour. ... Conclusion In these short stories there are various kinds of tensions...

• Word Count: 1958
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Men were no longer the only ones who could work; women were now able to get jobs. ... Upper and middle class women were able to get jobs in family businesses, but the economy and society dictated that women should work in their homes doing housework like cleaning, looking after the children, and cooking. ... Louise heard the story like other women hear when they lose a husband, but, "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance," (Chopin). ... She was unhappy with being put in the stereotypical position of women s...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This allegory is a depiction of the women's suffrage and the beginning of the rise of feminism. ... The bars are symbolic of the division of men and women and how the women are being held back. ... The narrator has described the feelings that women had in her time and what could happen if women were to be kept quiet and reserved to only live as man saw fit. ... But narrator had traded her sanity for her independence from being John's "bless little goose- at the end. These women were denied their own lives in most every real term imaginable. ...

• Word Count: 2055
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

During the battle of Karbala, Hussein was beheaded along with 71 of his followers, and the women and children were imprisoned. ... Around me, women clutched their babies, little boys walked close to their parents and the elderly marched on. ... "I hope that walking to Karbala with my little baby will give her the Imam's blessing to help her walk." ... Women sat outside with their children and boiled hot, sweet tea for us. ...

• Word Count: 1514
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It demonstrates the fragile accord the women come to upon Jing-mei's decision to travel to China to meet her sisters. ... To the mothers, it was a way to hold on to what little bit of their culture they were able to keep around them - a link to how they truly see themselves. ... This action allows for resolution of all the women's stories, in a way. What Jing-mei has done is bridged the gap and by doing so, has created hope for a bridging of gaps between all the women. ... Each of the women has experienced these feelings of inadequacy and can identify. ...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

Although some critics question Updike's use of sexual overtones and exploitation of women in several of his writings (ACC par.1), this story would not have provided the reader insight to the raging hormones of Sammy, had the author chosen a less descriptive method of story telling. ... During this assumed time period, women started wearing more revealing clothes and exposing more skin. The wearing of hip huggers and mini skirts would indicate this change in women's apparel. ... In the beginning he acts like an immature kid as he dissects how each of the girls look in their respective...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She is a representative figure, one of the "gaunt and haggard women who live alone and work like men" - alone, that is, except for their children and the livestock they have to care for. ... The cyclic pattern of the narrative gives a structural framework to the story in which very little actually happens. ... The use of these flashbacks or anecdotes is to give more information about the Drover's wife and it creates a good characteristic of the women. ... This anecdote broadens the viewer's perspectives of women life and develops an understanding of her experiences and it also gives...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the Old South and times only known in history book, women were involved with courtship love and faithfulness to only one lover. ... Like Miss Emily, women around that historical time period were very formidable and obsessed with love. ... Only women of the time will behave that way. ... The narrator notes that while the men attend the funeral out of obligation, the women go primarily because no one has been inside her house for years, with many mysterious events happened through times ("A Rose for Emily-). ... Littler wrote that "A Rose for Emily- has been read variously as " a Gothic ...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In her novel The Great Awakening, she addresses women's roles in society and relationships with men. ... Additionally she sends the message that men are just as responsible for the characteristics of a baby as women. ... N The 19th century was a difficult time for many women and blacks because of the domination of white men over them. ... A single mother knew there was little help to be found and the child would be hard pressed for a descent upbringing socially and economically speaking. ... The struggle Desiree was trying to overcome was a losing one and mainly because of the domina...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8

This story starts out with two women, Misto C and Rachel, having a conversation on the front porch of a farmhouse. ... On the little free time he did have, he liked sailing. ... A little boy that walked by was eating a pair, but he took one bite and threw it down. ... There he met a women named Portia. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His complicated life lived with an obsession of money mixed with complex women and excessive drinking influenced his literary works and style which caused much criticism. ... Not only did Fitzgerald's childhood destroy him but the women in his life brought him more grief than he could handle. ... One little man with eyes really witnessing; objective in all he uttered, even about himself in a subjective slump; arrogant in just one connection, for one purpose only, to make his meaning clear."...

• Word Count: 1307
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This story tells of a little girl's desire to be named Tandy. ... One day, while the two are enjoying a nice day on their porch, a drunken man staggers next to them and launches into a rant discussing the perfect women, a woman who has the strength to be loved. ...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Likewise, "John Bull" is a representation of the pride Englishmen and women have in their country. ... At the end of the sketch, Irving quotes, " '. . . a little longer and the white man will cease to persecute us--for we shall cease to exist!" ... Furthermore, he uses the persona of the little quarto to share his beliefs and passion about books; he says, "books were written to give pleasure and to be enjoyed" (129). ...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jackson, New Yorker, 1948, p. 3) In the middle: "And now we`ve got to be hurrying a little more to get done in time." ... As already stated, they have the economical power and therefore they stand at the top of the village while the rest of the townspeople, especially women who are housewifes dependent on their husbands- mostly farmers, represents the lower class of the society. ...

• Word Count: 2043
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The ghost is linked to historical fact (Hessian mercenaries fought for the British during the Revolutionary War), yet it also signals a sense of historical obscurity and uncertainty-a headless and thus unidentifiable figure killed in a "nameless" battle, surrounded by "floating facts" (p. 273), who, after all, seems little related to either the Dutch or the Yankee protagonist currently inhabiting the area. ... Ichabod's imaginative endeavors tend to align him with the feminine in the story, the women "spinning" by the fire (p. 277), especially in contrast to the brawny Brom Bones. ...

• Word Count: 1590
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

More likely stress is caused by those little annoying thoughts that stick in your mind and bother you as well as daily responsibilities that put pressure on you. ... On top of this, Novins had a serious history of failed relationships with a lot of women. ...

• Word Count: 1716
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The literature of Flannery O'Connor can appear to be distant and unemotional, as well as unbelievably harsh and violent. Her short stories characteristically conclude with horrific fatalities or an individual's emotional ruin. While O'Connor's mentality seems to be futile and interspersed with sen...

• Word Count: 1784
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Hills Like White Elephant" by Ernest Hemingway is about an American man and a women named Jig, who are inside of a bar at a train station in Spain as they wait for the train that will take them to Barcelona. ... The fact that "Lane Dean and Sheri are sitting at "the edge" reflects that they are at a turning point in their life," and have little time to decide what they should do. ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography