Essays Tagged: "Mandell"

John Updike's "A&P". The characterization of Sammy

ewives as "sheep pushing their carts down the aisle" and laborers as "freeloaders". (Kirszner & Mandell, 126). He refers to a woman currently in his aisle as a "witch about fifty" who "if she was ... y" who "if she was born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem" (Kirszner & Mandell, 125). His disdain of the people that come into the grocery is an obvious outlet for his dis ...

(4 pages) 204 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Trifles Plot

Richardson says that in Trifles, Glaspell developed a new structure for her action." (Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Richardson claims that "Trifles is carefully crafted to match Glaspell's subject matte ... he action meanders, without a clearly delineated beginning, middle, or end.." (qtd. in Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Upon closer inspect we can clearly see that Glaspell does indeed have a beginning, mid ...

(4 pages) 30 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American