Aspects of American Novels Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

144 samples

Art as a Reflection of Reality in Thoreau’s Walden

In detailing the costs associated with building his home, including such notes as the use of refuse shingles for the roof and sides and the purchase of two second hand windows, he rails against the [...]
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Carver

The question, therefore, concerns the ubiquitous darkness that surrounds the main characters throughout the story and the purpose of this darkness, whereas the key problem concerns the reasonability of using darkness as the basis for [...]
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American Novels: “A&P” by John Updike

By depicting the behavior of a teenager named Sammy who works in the supermarket chain, the writer illustrates the way in which an individual responds to the culture dominated by consumption and rigid norms that [...]
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Everything Tastes Like Liquorice

The story opens as the man and the woman sit in the shade of the station cafe, discussing what to drink to cool them down from the oppressive heat.
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Jay Gatsby & Gean Valjean: Characters Comparison

This essay compares and contrasts the characters of Gatsby and Jean Valjean in the Les Miserable novels and films. Gatsby strikes the readers as a na ve and lovesick individual though his character is negative.
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Edith Wharton’s Works Analysis

Her works reflect the lives of American upper class through the use of humor and empathy in describing their lives, and changes in New York towards the beginning of the 20th century.
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The Synopsis of Super Crunchers

He explains that this is the reason why some of the major companies are gaining an edge in the marketplace by using numbers and data to manipulate the marketplace.
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William Faulkner Barn Burning

One the one hand, the sentence characterizes the inner state of a young boy, who seems to be frightened; on the other hand, it is obvious that a little boy understood the content of a [...]
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A&P by John Updikes

But Sammy is conscious of the fact that Stockesie is married and cannot go after the girls but he feels he still has the opportunity and freedom to go after the girls himself.
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Herman Melville’s “Bartleby”

With the assumption that the story of "Bartleby the Scrivener" is a love story, it can be presumed that the author has taken a certain fascination that is in actual sense bordering on infatuation with [...]
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