Poetry Explication: Sonnet 18 (William Shakespeare) Shakespeare uses Sonnet 18 to praise his beloved’s beauty and describe all the ways in which their beauty is preferable to a summer day. The stability of love and its power toRead more…
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Narrative Explication: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor uses her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” to demonstrate the transformative power of human compassion and grace. Transformations of theRead more…
Great Gatsby through the Lens of Feminism
Sarah Hyun November 5, 2018 ENGL 100. Prof Whitley The Great Gatsby through the lens of Feminism Feminist criticism examines the ways in which literature has been written according to issues of gender. It focuses its attention on howRead more…
Secondary Source paper
Slater, Peter. “Ethnicity in The Great Gatsby.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 19, no. 1, 1973, pp. 53–62. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/440797 The 1920’s was a time when an obsessive concern about ethnicity was a part of American culture. The reborn KuRead more…
Primary Source paper
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-Up. New Direction Publishing, 1936, https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4310/the-crack-up/. In this three-part essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he tells the story of his sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamour to one ofRead more…