The main character, Marlow, chooses to have his aunt help him find a job and proclaims, "Then - would you believe it?... The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, offers a female point of view to the same time period. Here, the main character, Edna, is a woman, unhappy but not knowing fully why. ... The women that she is surrounded by, exemplified by the character Adele Ratignolle, seem to have no problem doing this and remaining elegant, unreserved, and forthright, but chaste. ... This initial "awakening- is discovered when Edna finally beings to swim in the ocean on her own. ...

• Word Count: 993
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The current views and the beginning of change in those views that some of society held towards the independence of women in the late 1800s can be seen through the character portrayals in "A White Heron." ... The story also showed change when it mentioned the awakening of Mrs. ... With this character and his display of stuffed dead birds, it relates how women were also viewed in this time. ... Her character reminisces about how things were when there were still men around at her place. ... Sylvia the story's main character is shown as a free spirit. ...

• Word Count: 498
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The current views and the beginning of change in those views that some of society held towards the independence of women in the late 1800s can be seen through the character portrayals in "A White Heron." ... The story also showed change when it mentioned the awakening of Mrs. ... With this character and his display of stuffed dead birds, it relates how women were also viewed in this time. ... Her character reminisces about how things were when there were still men around at her place. ... Sylvia the story's main character is shown as a free spirit. ...

• Word Count: 498
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

These two stories have different settings, different characters, they were even written at different times. ... Both of the authors through their stories lead the way for their characters and their final disillusionment. ... This is a story about a boy's quest, but even though the quest ends in failure, it results in his awakening and his first step into manhood. ... As the story begins the main character is already a young woman. ... Both of the main characters in these stories are dreamers. ...

• Word Count: 776
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"A&P" Every story has a main character in which at some point in time has a crucial moment when an important decision must be made. These main characters must take actions or avoid certain actions in order to complete the true meaning and message of the story. ... The major action that Sammy (the main character) takes is his final decision in the end to quit his job at the grocery store. ... However, could it have been that Sammy had a rude awakening that there is much more to be taken in from the world than a life lived inside a boring grocery store, in a boring town? ...

• Word Count: 843
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

John Steinbeck utilizes two main characters to contrast different forms of strength in the short story " The Chrysanthemums". ... She tries to avoid this awakening by turning the other way but it is too late because she had already grasped that the lump in the road were her chrysanthemum roots and the repair man's intentions were not genuine. ...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3

She is emphatic and militant about her causes and compared to Jim's humdrum attitude, this is eye awakening. ... The first story, The Girls In Their Summer Dresses, shows us conflict between two characters and each character's interpretation of love and lust. The second story, Carnal Knowledge, shows us an internal conflict within the main character in the way that he confuses love and lust for a woman and her lifestyle. And finally the third piece, Lust, shows us that we the reader can become part of the conflict based upon our own preconceived notions of what should be the life...

• Word Count: 1832
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Dalloway: Although these novels do not explicitly state feminist doctrines, the main characters in both are independent women who are either unsatisfied with their present lives and husband or are the matriarchal leaders of their families and Brahman of their social circles. ... "Woolf's main object was to use the stream of consciousness poetically and to integrate it into the design as whole in conjunction with other images." ... Dalloway, the protagonist, is a pseudo-antagonist who subjects his wife to the passive abuse of neglect as does the husband in Kate Chopin's The A...

• Word Count: 2233
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School