In Dorothy Lessing's, "To Room Nineteen" and in Willa Cather's, "Paul's Case" the protagonists, Susan Rawlings and Paul, respectively live two livesâ€"the physical self and the "other" self. The latter is what governs their every day motivationsâ€"th...

My Antonia This remarkable piece of literature by Willa Cather is layered with its sense of place, connections between people and between people and places as well as visual, and surprisingly simple, descriptions of prairie life and events. The characters and the story are far more complex tha...

In Her Praise -by Robert Graves This they know well: The Goddess yet abides. Though each new lovely woman whom she rides, Straddling her neck for a year or two or three Should sink beneath such weight of majesty And, groping back to humankind, gainsay The headlong power that whitened all her way W...

Stradlater said, but I knew he probably wouldn't... "Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row." "Okay," Stradlater said, but I knew he wouldn't. (p.33-34) This is seen again when he doesn't trust Stradlater to stop his advances of Jane in the case that she says no. Holden gives up ...

A Streetcar Named Desire & Its Only A Paper Moon Often in literature, writers allude to songs and/or poems. In scene seven of A Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, references are made to Its Only A Paper Moon, by Billy Rose, Yip Harburg, and Harold Arlen. The significance of this s...