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...

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...