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