Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 743 displays itself as the paradox of physical closeness but emotional distance. The repeated juxta ...
744 McCullers, Carson fer unrequited love for others who do not love them in return, incomprehensible love whose reasons cannot ...
The Member of the Wedding 745 The regularity of work shapes several characters’ lives for good and ill. Perhaps the most obvious ...
746 McCullers, Carson Frances Addams, a gangly, androgynous, and moth- erless 12-year-old tomboy; her bespectacled and ethereal ...
The Member of the Wedding 747 emotionally left his only daughter. Similarly, the summer has intensified a sense of isolation and ...
748 McCullers, Carson will carry them to their honeymoon, and away from her forever, the child Frankie throws herself to the dus ...
Lonesome Dove 749 her an opportunity to reminisce about how the “old Frankie” interacted with them; still the members of the com ...
750 McMurtry, Larry a herd of cattle and driving it up to new territory in Montana. For two former lawmen attempting to scratch ...
Lonesome Dove 751 read lines with. His women actually seem to talk and act and react like real women would, a great accom- plish ...
752 McMurtry, Larry reading of Lonesome Dove reveals that while the men might have started on a straight path, it was the women ...
“Bartleby, the scrivener: A story of Wall street” 753 breaks his neck in a suicidal leap to cheat the hang- man. Despite already ...
754 Melville, Herman developed in the subsequent relationship between him and the lawyer. It is a development in which the deman ...
“Bartleby, the scrivener: A story of Wall street” 755 tations. These contradictions touch particularly on the character and beha ...
756 Melville, Herman above suggests Christ as “the true Light” ( John 1:9). The ginger nuts that are his only food are described ...
“Billy Budd, sailor” 757 him from the majority of the society around him, but rather than portray Billy as the victim of delib- ...
758 Melville, Herman to tales of recent uprisings, and this fear leads to stricter punishments for mutineers. While captains fea ...
Moby-Dick 759 into the service of the Royal Navy. At both jobs, with the merchants and the Royal Navy, Billy puts forth a decent ...
760 Melville, Herman and through the power of his magnetic personality enlists Pequod’s crew to join in his vengeful hunt for Mo ...
Moby-Dick 761 Yet in crafting Moby-Dick, Melville doesn’t content himself with easy and predictable racial binaries. As already ...
762 Melville, Herman Mapple preach on the story of the prophet Jonah and the whale (chapters 7–9). This visit is a strange parad ...
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