Many of the images and events in "Boys and Girls" have to do with freedom or the lack of it. The narrator defines freedom in a number of situations. In this story, the male world represents freedom while the female world represents confinement. In the narrator's perspective, her mother was confin...

Calpurnia acts like she's the mother of Scout and Jem. Not only does she cook and clean for the Finch's, she also disciplines, advises, and takes care of all Jem's and Scout's needs. Cal is an extremely well educated black woman who lives in two very opposite worlds. In one world...

At the start of the play, Lady Macbeth seems to have a very strong character - almost stronger than Macbeth's - but by the end she is reduced to being afraid of the dark. At the beginning she is Macbeth's 'dearest partner of greatness', but at the end she is his 'fiend-like queen'. She has a lus...