In order to support the story's theme of domestic struggle, Walker employs rural and urban equality, heritage, and the symbolism and importance of quilts. ... Mama talks of her fat keeping her hot in cold weather similar to the cow that carries around large amounts of fat allowing it to stay out all year round. ... These are things that a family provides. ... The quilts passed down in Mama's family stand for the African-American culture they came from. ... Dee only returns to her roots because they are considered "fashionable now" (Christian 86-87). ...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

"They eat, sleep, and breathe for one thing - making it."" ... They are not comfortable with him calling them out on their materialistic ways and pointing out that none of those things matter when you leave this world. The parish sits in the pews with their rose colored glasses on, unwilling to see things as they really are. ... The reader sees that Willie has figured out how terribly wrong things are in Linden Hills. ... He eventually brought back a young wife, whose name is not even mentioned, who gave him a son to carry on his father's work in the morgue and the building up of the ...

• Word Count: 2802
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: High School

Success and Failure in Death of a Salesman Throughout history society's interpretations of success and failure remain fundamentally sound. Over the years monetary, occupational, and family standings continue to be some key items which measure the success and or failure of an individual. Many peopl...

• Word Count: 3030
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The term „institution‟ is used in nominalist sense, to mean a group of persons organized according to cultural principles to carry on activities which fulfill their basic individual and social needs as human beings.4 Similarly, Arthur W. ... They wait until the problems work themselves out, following predictable and stereotyped patterns of behavior as they do. They are at the mercy of their emotional pursuit of the domestic ideal, and the solutions which occur are accidental. ... In addition to Realism and Naturalism, the playwrights had their experiments with epic, symbolism, Expressionis...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School