Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
on a quest that will bestow a greater sense of com- munity on all of the characters in “Cathedral.” Raymond Carver expresses per ...
264 Carver, Raymond some relief from their otherwise stultifying and stale lives. Carver himself, whose fiction was viewed as th ...
My Ántonia 265 of helping Robert “see” what a cathedral is, the nar- rator opens himself up to a different view of human- ity an ...
266 Cather, Willa very much affected by the way she treats him. For example, he is hurt when she regards him as a young boy (he ...
My Ántonia 267 Indeed, Jim seems to find peace, happiness, and freedom by identifying with nature and feeling as if he is one wi ...
268 Cather, Willa describes the country girls as lively and engaging, having “a positive carriage and freedom of move- ment,” wh ...
O Pioneers! 269 two older brothers, Lou and Oscar, to take over the family’s ailing Nebraska farm upon his death. Alexandra’s st ...
270 Cather, Willa Alexandra, Cather’s central character, is allotted the responsibility early in life of maintaining the family ...
The Canterbury Tales 271 his best efforts, coupled with the physical exertion involved in working what he has come to view as ho ...
272 Chaucer, Geoffrey contest. This framing device allows Chaucer (ca. 1342–1400) to bring together storytellers from all walks ...
The Canterbury Tales 273 exhibit “mannish” treachery (2.781–782), it is more often men who exhibit traits that are considered fe ...
274 Chaucer, Geoffrey In contrast to Griselidis’s suppressed grief, the potential emptiness of ritualized mourning is revealed i ...
The Seagull 275 Shipman talk about church corruption, and “The Miller’s Tale” contains allusions to monastic worship (“And thus ...
276 Chekhov, Anton play, Masha articulates her plans for abandoning her fantasies and moving forward in a new direction. Yet eve ...
The Seagull 277 you,” to which she replies, “Nonsense... Your love touches me, but I can’t return it, that’s all” (Act 1). By th ...
278 Chesnutt, Charles W. ment of Justice for twenty-eight years, but I’ve never lived, never experienced anything.” Even Dorn, a ...
“The Goophered Grapevine” 279 would be recognized by Socrates, the great ancient Greek philosopher of ethics. The story as told ...
280 Chesnutt, Charles W. there is a “color line” that separates the meaning of freedom to Uncle Julius, a former slave, and to h ...
The Awakening 281 the post–Civil War stereotype of the freed slave and turning it on its ear. The happy-go-lucky, childlike blac ...
282 Chopin, Kate produced it. The laws in Louisiana at the time and the role of women in Creole society are important to underst ...
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