... heart.� For Carrie, Drouet is sufficient until Hurstwood comes along. In him she sees a refined Drouet, with more money. Once again, Carrie’s desire impedes her judgement, because we are told that she does not love Hurstwood. Carrie essentially has no feelings for Drouet of Hurstwood yet involves herself with them because of the prospect of money. Once Carrie became accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle, her subconscious desire gave her the will to do what it takes to avoid change. Drouet is born bachelor whose desire is flirtation and courting women. For him this is almost a natural instinct, as soon as ...

... others because they may not like their true selves and either want to change themselves or just merely fit in with society and be liked by others. Another mask that is often worn is the powerful and superior one and so to feel superior when among others pushes them around and becomes a bully. This same person could be gentle, nice and kind when around family but may feel the need to appear superior around other people. This form of adjusting one's personality or mask to suit a situation in life, is also common among characters in novels, dramas, and other forms of literature. In certain characters it is evident ...

... the story was any sort of metaphor. His direct, unembellished approach remains constant throughout the story. To find the message in Metamorphosis, however, one must assume that the story is meant for much more than entertainment. Before his transformation at the beginning of the book, Gregor Samsa was working very hard at a menial job to support his entire family. While his boss was very strict, Gregor managed to do well enough to keep his family in an apartment that was larger than their needs required. He was even planning to send his sister to the music academy to further her violin skills. But to call Grego ...

... born. With her father also gone, the task of raising Janie fell to her grandmother, Nanny. Nanny tells Janie, "Fact uh de matter, Ah loves yuh a whole heap more'n Ah do yo' mama, de one Ah did birth" (p.31). Nanny's dream is for Janie to attain a position of security in society, "high ground" as she puts it. As the person who raised her, Nanny feels that it is both her right and obligation to impose her dreams and her ideas of what is important in life on Janie. The conflict between Janie's sacred view of marriage and Nanny's wish for her to marry for stability and position is a good illustration of just how de ...

... her from going with Frank. Eveline for sure is an insecure woman. This is shown by the way that she stays faithful to her daily predictable duties. “ She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from “(4) (sic). Eveline’s life is a fearful one, which resembles the dust constantly, mentioned in this story. The way objects can constantly build up dust time after time no matter what environment its in resembles her. Eveline is constantly being involved in problems and stress time after time. So w ...

... an African American brought him many unfair encounters. However, after he changed back to a Caucasian, the attitude of everyone had immediately turned, and they treated him well. Mr. Griffin felt bad, and he told everyone about his experiences by writing books and attending press interviews. Throughout these hard times, one can read this book and find out the characteristics of the author, how he saw the light bulb, and the truth that he wanted people to understand. Mr. Griffin was a middle age white man who lived with his wife and children. He was not oriented to his family. He decided to pass his own society t ...

... and next winter's tempests would be sure to fell one or both, to earth: as yet, however, they might be said to form one tree - a ruin; but an entire ruin. 'You did right to hold fast to each other,' I said: as if the monster-splinters were living things, and could hear me. 'I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be little sense of life in you yet; rising out of that adhesion at the faithful, honest roots: you will never have green leaves more - never more see birds making nests and singing idylls in your boughs; the time of love and pleasure is over with you; but you are not desolate: eac ...

... states, “ Poor Heathcliff! Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won’t let him sit with us, nor let him sit with us any more; and, he says he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the house if we break his orders � (Ch. 3 Pg 47). Therefore, Heathcliff grew up as a bitter, wicked person, waiting for the right time to take revenge against Hindley. In addition, Hindley tortured Heathcliff when he was with Catherine. Heathcliff found consolation in his passionate relationship with Catherine, which was not approved by her brother. So several punishments were given to them such as, “T ...

... accepting his responsibilities to women at last. By accepting his true inheritance from women, he becomes a man, who loves and respects women, who knows he can fly but also knows his responsibilties. In the first part of the novel, Milkman is his father's son, a child taught to ignore the wisdom of women. Even when he is 31, he still needs "both his father and his aunt to get him off" the scrapes he gets into. Milkman considers himself Macon, Jr., calling himself by that name, and believing that he cannot act independently (120). The first lesson his father teaches him is that ownership is everything, and that wo ...

... The “tree,� as it is, while aesthetically the same, is individually different. Therefore one must come to his own conclusions about the representation of the tree. The parable also gives off a sense of an opinionated unity. While the narrator unifies his readers through the use of the pronoun “we� in the first sentence, the entire parable feels as though it is the opinion of the narrator. This fact poses a discrediting, of sort, to the validity of the parable. It may not hold true for each individual that is reading the parable, yet it seems to be reflective of the experiences of the narrator and no one else. ...