Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

374 Dreiser, Theodore sexual desire but also by an apparently genuine urge to protect her from the dog-eat-dog spirit of newly i ...

Sister Carrie 375 Hurstwood in New York City. Her relationships with both of her male protectors resemble marriage in all practi ...

376 DuBois, W. E. B. of $10 bills; hats, dresses, and little accessories; and the “shine and rustle of new things.” Pieces of cl ...

The Souls of Black Folk 377 population and help turn them away from black leaders such as Booker T. Washington, who pro- moted i ...

the school opens and he begins teaching her along with her many classmates, Josie studies “doggedly,” displaying herself (first ...

The Souls of Black Folk 379 To give readers an example of what he sees as a problematic way of thinking, DuBois critically exami ...

380 Edwards, Jonathan DuBois disagreed strongly with leaders such as Booker T. Washington, who started a new tradition of black ...

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” 381 obligatory and the path to hell is easily found. At one point, Edwards likens humanki ...

382 Edwards, Jonathan ever, if a member of the church decides to accept Christ, he or she will be “born again,” as Edwards implo ...

has so many different unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell, that that there is nothi ...

384 Eliot, T. S. Although the imagery and number of examples may seem excessive to modern readers, part of the persuasive power ...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 385 the men of the poem, who are referred to in the singular (Michelangelo, “the eternal Foo ...

386 Eliot, T. S. various descents down the “the stair” of life through- out the poem as Prufrock ruminates to the point of menta ...

The Waste Land 387 unspecified other (“you”) who may be a real com- panion (possibly the “one” who appears in the bed- room scen ...

388 Eliot, T. S. and its fragmentary nature all help to promote a feeling of alienation. Much of The Waste Land is composed of a ...

The Waste Land 389 the fragments that serve to connect them. The story of Tristan and Isolde, which is referred to as a story of ...

390 Ellison, Ralph However, each of these novel techniques has a basis in the canon. For example, Walt Whitman used long nonrhym ...

Invisible Man 391 tion, his ambition, and his view of society. Identity is also related to race and social class, and by the end ...

392 Ellison, Ralph comes to the narrator in a dream-vision following the Battle Royal and his subsequent speech. In this vision, ...

“The American Scholar” 393 Other examples of racial stereotyping in the novel cause more anger and are related to more dire cons ...