In Alice Munro's short story, Red Dress-1946, the character Mary Fortune represents the symbol of influence. ... " (Munro 1) An example of when she lives a life defined by others is when her mother is making a red dress. The girl does not like the red dress, but does not express her sentiments to her mother. ... With Manson suddenly approaching her, she started 'trembling' and could not speak to him, nor make eye contact. ...

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"Uneasy Homecoming" is a short story by William F. Jenkins, which I would call a scary story. It is about women called Connie who comes home from her holiday to find there has been a series of burglaries in her village. She arrives home in the dark, alone. This shows that the main character is a w...

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Dee being pretty, superficial, and snobbish likes to belittle her mother and sister who are neither educated nor pleasing to the eye. ... The imagery used by the author the create Maggie starts with her red skirt. After reading about the fire she had been involved with earlier in the story, it is obvious that the red represents the flames that brushed upon Maggie's body leaving behind a painting of scars. ... Or it may also be depicted by the way she looks at Dee " eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe." ...

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Sam, his long silky blond haired and bright blue eyed girlfriend looks back at all the beautiful memories they had created together, and the bright future ahead and she says confidently, "I want you forever and always. ... He seemed to be drowning in a dizzy whirling pool of red, so dark that it was almost black. ...

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"He seemed to see, with a cartographer's eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county" (Cheever 1). ... One can see further examples of this time change with the leaves being yellow and red and then later being stripped from the trees. ...

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In writing, a symbol is a person, place, or thing that suggests more than its expected and literal meaning in Boyle's short story "Greasy Lake"", he uses the lake in the title for not only a realistic purpose but also symbolically on the realistic level, the lake benefits the plot because it is the ...

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Additionally, according to Levy, the colour pink is created through a blend of white (which represents virtue) and red (which represents sin) (282). ... So, upon closer investigation of the tale "Young Goodman Brown," it soon becomes apparent that there is much more to it than initially "meets the eye," as simple, everyday things such as people's names, pink ribbons, and a forest come to represent much deeper meanings. ...

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