In the medieval period Chaucer, writes to his audience the ideal of marriage in his stories. ... He told her stories about loose woman and how they got what they wanted in their husbands. ... She quotes "We came to an agreement between ourselves. ... With in this quote she explained what she had to do in order to have mastery over him. ... In Chaucer's other story "Franklin's tale" is also a story about marriage. ...

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By getting to know the main characters in each of these stories, readers better understand why their relationships are so difficult to maintain. ... " ( Richler 100) This quote is an example of the way Duddy thinks. ... This quote clearly shows that emotions are not involved in this relationship, at least not on Duddy's part. ... It also contributes to the theme of relationships in the story. ... Although the relationships in both stories are somewhat different, they also share many similarities. ...

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During this period of his life Carver was quoted as saying that each of his characters has a "fleeting moment where they don't want to compromise anymore. ... In the story "Will You Be Quiet Please?... This story, "Cathedral," has become one of his most popular. ... The first story however is left undecided with a vague and open ending like many of his earlier stories. ... In the second story however, Carver writes an ending. ...

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This quote by the female protagonist in Tobias Wolff's short story, "Say Yes- addresses the unlikelihood of an interracial couple as presented in Ann Petry's novel, The Narrows. ... Petry intentionally contrasts the two couples - Mamie and Powther, and Camillo and Link - in this story to show that although Mamie and Powther are a same race couple, does not mean they are a successful couple. ... No light downstairs where he and Abbie lived and had their being."" (90) This quote is important because it shows that the Powthers too are monochromatic, with no description of a second color...

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At the top is Odysseus, who at the time the story starts is not at home, so this leaves his son Telemachus in charge. ... Penelope represents the women in the story. ... You can see in the story as well, that she is very much the one in charge of running her home. ... (Odyssey, 105) This is a quote from Telemachus talking to one of his servants, instructing him not to tell of his plan to his mother, as he cared so much about her that he did not want to upset her with news of his leaving. ... Homer brings these alive in the very detailed lives of his main characters of the story: Od...

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It is important to note that this train of thought directly influenced the very characters telling the stories. ... In the tenth story of the fifth day it is said, " a woman is always ready for a man, but not vice-versa. ... Take for example the story of Alatiel who passes through the hands of nine different men over four years. ... In the stories we sometimes see that societal rank and dowries constitute marriage. ... There are many quotes that can be taken from the narrative to exemplify this thought. ...

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Guy De Maupassant in the short story "The Jewelry" writes about a man whose wife had apparently committed adultery on him. ... In the story M. ... In the story M, Lantin assumes that his wife had an affair. ... In the story, it also says that M. ... What this quote means is that you rea11y do not need to have sex to have an affair; being just emotiona1y intimate is already committing adultery. ...

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The short story, The Death of Ivan Ilych, written by Leo Tolstoy, is about the reactions of a man and his friends to his suffering and death. ... (p. 1088) That quote states that Ivan was solely concerned with his duties and his advancement in position by following the orders of his authorities. ... Ivan developed an attitude towards his family of complete indifference as stated in the story, He only required of it those conveniences---dinner at home, housewife, and bed---which it could give him. ... With this story, Leo Tolstoy shows that a man can change. ...

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Near the beginning of the story Mr. ... This quote describes the beginning of Edna's process of awakening. ... This quote highlights how Edna saw herself in the beginning of the novel; she saw herself as the property of her husband, Léonce. ...

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Certain scriptures have been quoted for years and it's the persons own interpretation that can make it sound right or wrong. That's what the Bible is, an interpretation of what someone else has saw full of stories thru someone else's eyes and several other translation that have come about over the past hundreds of years. ... "Equality and Justice for All" is a famous quote that our parents, grandparents and even our great grandparents have recited for years and our children and grand children will recite those same words for years to come. ...

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This quote makes it seem that its the large dowry that will restore honor to himself and his family, the dowry of Lusanna was just too small. ... As mentioned in the quote, it was the norm for young urban professional men to take lower class young women to bed but it was not common for them to take a wife at such a young age. ... Lusanna's story describes one woman's struggle to gain a measure of personal independence in a male-dominated world. ...

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The story, "Parker's Back"," by Flannery O'Connor, is about the marriage of O.E. ... As stated in the story, "Parker had never before felt the least motion of wonder in himself " before the day he saw the man covered in tattoos. ... Sarah Ruth was a devout Christian who knew the Bible well and often quoted from it as she cautioned Parker of how horrible Judgment day would be for him if he continued to live his blasphemous life. ... Parker's thoughts on why she married him are displayed in the beginning of the story as contemplates "she had married him because she meant to save h...

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In this following quote, we can tell she is distraught from the yearning of her husband's return: "How I long for my husband -alive in memory, always, that great man whose fame resounds through Hellas right to the depths of Argos (Odyssey i.395-397)!" ... He explains the fine details of Odysseus' whereabouts in order to ensure his story is true. ... Eventually, he gets fed up with her games and reveals the truth about their bed, and says "There's our secret sign, I tell you, our life story! ...

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In a sense, "Pride and Prejudice" is the story of two courtships - those between Darcy and Elizabeth and Bingley and Jane. ... " and this quote does much to outline the changing conceptions of family and partnership that are central to Austen's text. ... From an optimistic view, even if Jane hadn't been so lucky, if all of the three females followed Elizabeth's example of learning, would they have all ended up happily in marriages of love and fortune (i.e. does Austen use Elizabeth's story as a formula for female readers to follow so they can find marriages ...

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He hopes to tell their story and bring Americans to visit their culture and learn from their ways. ... The two older men would drink chicha together and recall stories of their younger days, romances, headhunting, etc. ... He told their story as it is and put only truth and good intentions into his writing. I think that above all else Perkins main interest with the Shuar was to spread their story. ...

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Boy meets girl, falls in love and gets married, exemplifying the classic love story that every little girl dreams about. ... With the introduction of the no-fault divorce couples no longer needed to ensure that their pick for a spouse was a perfect match, nor did they need to sort out their issues, all they were required to do was quote "irreconcilable differences" and be done with each other, with their children being caught in the middle. ...

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The famous television actor Bill Cosby stated, "For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked" (Motivational Quotes). ... The heartbreaking story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare illustrates this type of bond between a young couple and how antagonistic parental authority caused the tragic demise of their relationship. ...

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Two quotes illustrate this phenomenon. ... The story of the Sarakatsan's family as well as my own personal experiences growing up in a traditional East Indian family illustrate the impact and enormous benefits that social improvements have had on our society, and countries in southeast Asia such as India. ...

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