Essays on Character

Guy de Maupassant's story The Necklace is about Mathilde and her husband, who live in poverty. Suffering is a significant theme in the short story, as illustrated by the main character Mathilde Loisel. The misery is caused by the young woman's poverty and brutality in life, which she endures until...

Metamorphosis is a story by Franz Kafka that was published in 1915 and is based on the main character Gregor Samsa. Gregor is a young businessman who is always on the run but still leaves with his parents and her sister, to whom he gives financial assistance. When he wakes...

All the Light We Can't See begins in the media res, a Latin term that means "pop" in the center of things. The story blends the depiction of the bombing of Saint-Malo with the protagonists of the stories to depict the city's chaos and uncertainty when the bombing starts. While...

Characters from both "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Doll's House" can be used to contrast and compare the two plays. Amanda Winfield and Nora Helmer are characters from "A Doll's House" and "The Glass Menagerie," respectively. While Amanda and Nora come from separate plays, when their characteristics are compared, they...

The play opens with Tom saying the play as a memory of his past with all the play-cation taking place in his head. The movements in his head are therefore sentimental, emotional and dramatic, not realistic. The Glass Menagerie as a Memory of the Past The play fits as a reminiscence of...

August Wilson's play "Fences" emphasizes the events that accompany Troy, the main character. The play is set in an African American setting, as shown by the book's racial segregation elements. A fence is a barrier established to protect an individual's estate, such as houses and grounds, from damage or intrusion...

Mr. Grierson in "A Rose for Emily" and the narrator's father in "Superman and Me" Mr. Grierson in the short story "A Rose for Emily" and the narrator's father in "Superman and Me" are two characters who hold the same place in society but come out as two different individuals. Mr. Grierson's...

The 1944 short story "Everyday Use" The 1944 short story "Everyday Use" unfolds by showing the neatly made yard that Maggie and her mother have to do. The garden was made for Dee, who is Maggie's niece, for a special visit. Although Maggie is anxious about the visit of a long-gone...

Rachel B. Blass addresses the broad scope of Klein's definition of the ego in her essay Return to Freud and Beyond. Klein's concept of identity is deeply rooted in two approaches: Freud's creations of the self and the abstract and meta-psychological approach to character discrimination (Blass, 151). Blass believes that...

"Groundhog Day" film tells the story of Phil Connors, a reporter who finds himself trapped to relive the same day over and over again. In the beginning, the main character is a cruel, selfish, self-centered human, unhappy to all, while in the end, after being revived hundreds of times the...

Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper," a record of the Iraq War as seen from the gun sights of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, whose four voyages through obligation solidified his remaining as the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history, begins as a competent, straightforward combat image and gradually transforms into something more...

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior In the book, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, the writer narrates the life of a character Dan. Dan is introduced as an enthusiastic gymnast who is in search of internal happiness and is transformed by a mentor into a peaceful warrior. Dan is capable...