Malouf's Use Of Epiphanies To Gain Meaning

Throughout the entire novel the friendship that is held between Ashley and Jim is always segregated by the constant hierarchical system of social status that exists between them. For example, Ashley and Jim’s relationship starts out mutual until Jim is employed by Ashley to work on the swamp. This separation of status between the two is continued on into the war as Ashley becomes an officer and Jim stays as a regularly soldier. An aspect that contributes greatly to the segregating social statuses of the men is Ashley’s European nature and educated background. Though Ashley was born in the same country as Jim and they are both a similar age, Ashley’s move to Europe to study greatly effected his upbringing of a natively Australian boy. Evidence of Ashley’s European and British identity is shown through description of the clothing he wears, the language he uses and also the friends of high social standing and wealth. Through Ashley’s character Malouf presents an identity that contrasts Jim’s and experiments with the identity that would be possessed by someone of a different origin and

For example, in the chapter titled “A Kiss for Amory” Myra, a girl whom Amory thought he had a crush on at the time, and Amory are left alone. He confesses his feelings for her and her “eyes [become] dreamy” (Fitzgerald 13). They then kiss, and she immediately begins to show more affection towards him. Suddenly Amory is overcome with disgust and “loathing for the whole incident” (Fitzgerald 13). This scene allows the reader to fully understand what is going on, from the contrasting perspectives of both the characters. The conflict portrays Myra’s assured feelings for Amory meanwhile revealing Amory’s ambiguous feelings towards Myra when it comes to love and affection. He realizes this is not what he really wants and becomes uncomfortable with the whole situation. This is the first example of a relationship ending due to Amory’s unstable and conflicting feelings towards girls and anticipates his future problematic relationships with women. This scene prepares the audience early in the novel for the upcoming conflicts relating to affection that Amory occasionally experiences as the story

At the time this was first published (1931), however, the topic of lesbianism and indeed any kind of same sex relationships was repressed, making Du Maurier’s references to homosexuality a move against the grain of polite discourse. This is perhaps why Du Maurier conceals Mrs. Danvers sexuality with perceivably mundane actions such as brushing hair.

In “ The Rumor,” John Updike relates a story about the struggle of an elderly married couple over a rumor that stated that the husband “Frank Whittier” was having a homosexual affair with a young man; additionally, this story explains how Frank has become the victim of a this bad rumor indicating that he is gay, how everybody has known about it and has believed it, how this rumor has affected Frank's manhood and life, how this rumor which ended up being false in the end, lead Frank to self-reflect on his life and how this rumor makes Frank realize that he is more attracted to men. The story begins with a phone call to the wife “Sharon Whittier” about her husband “Frank” being a hemosexeual, Sharon said, “ I do

Through choice of detail and diction, Edith Wharton justifies Frome’s adultery by juxtaposing the warm, charismatic nature of Mattie to the cold, barren one of Zeena. While his wife speaks in a “monotonous” (129) “flat whine” (32) her cousin’s “suffuse[s] him with joy” (44). Despite the fact that both women are frail and sickly, Zeena’s “puckered throat” and “protruding wrists” (47) disgusts Ethan, while Mattie is so “small and weak-looking that…it wr[i]ng[s] his heart” (106). Throughout the novel, Wharton’s choice of detail drastically contrasts the two women, one a vivacious, vigorous beauty, the other a walking, whining corpse. From their physical looks alone, Zeena is hard to love—sterile and dark—while Mattie—fertile and warm—is easy to. The author intentionally feeds this bias, allowing the readers to feel the same temptation that Frome has in the novel. However, he

Sexuality and personal growth has and always will be a topic of conversation in real life and even in fiction short stories. The idea of sexuality has just recently not only became an open idea to discuss but one to also write and publish about. Both Alice Munro and John Updike both illustrate the idea of sexuality and personal growth in very different ways. “The Found Boat” by Alice Munro, deals with sexuality in an aggressive manner while “A&P” by John Updike, deals more with the idea of sexuality rather than sexuality itself. They also have very similar elements of fiction that include (but is not limited to) characters, theme and conflict. The characters relate in both

There are many hidden and sub-surface meanings in life. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is no exception to that fact. As the title of the novel suggests, the novel is about the rise of a new generation that breaks away from the societal conventions of the previous generation. Though The Sun Also Rises seems to be simply about the rise of a new generation, a closer look at the relationship between Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley suggests a queer relationship produced out of gender role nonconformity. Their relationship enables one to see the blurring of the lines that divide the conventional gender roles.

The author uses descriptive language to provide the reader with an insight into Martins journey. For example, Martin is aware that his Mother and Old Ted have a difficult relationship, she says “he is an impossible man, as mad as an axe” (pg 4). Another

The narrator's two buddies don't have many distinguishing characteristics - both are cynical, and both seem more interested in self-preservation than in compassion or altruism, which means that on some level both are projections/externalizations of those characteristics in the narrator. At the end of the story Richard seems to be the more reckless of the two friends, the more edgy, and a quality that has echoes in the narrator's apparent willingness to indulge in the violence. , and as the story goes on Denis Johnson takes us into a whole anther world, a healing processes were our narrator goes into recovery, and he works part-time at the phoenix home for the old and the hopeless—some so deformed they made god look liked a senseless manic person, while in a ("Beverly Home," ).The narrator portrays himself as sexually involved with not one but two women, both of whom have some kind of physical disability that, on some level, echoes and mirrors his own emotional and spiritual disability. In other words, they are cripples together, finding mutual support, renewal and healing as they see past the disabilities and into need and vulnerability. The irony, of course, that in the case of the first woman in particular, the narrator's openness to build a broader relationship on that new kind of seeing is both restricted and restricting - in other words, he wants sex, not

“This profound generic view of the female sex did not seem to dispose Haley particularly to the straight road . . .” (67).

Rebecca tells a story through a sexually transgressive eponymous heroine who poses as the audaciously sexually transgressive side of the triangles. Yet, Rebecca is not the only character to throw the novel’s heterosexual blend out of balance. Maxim, the narrator, and Mrs. Danvers also contribute to the sexual queerness at play since each of them displays an overt transgression of his/her gender performance. Rebecca is independent, self-confident, outspoken, talented, and quite opinionated, a personality crossing to the side of masculinity. In addition, Rebecca’s sexual knowledge and alleged promiscuity destabilize the standard heterosexual stereotypes of the unquestionably chaste female Gothic heroine.

An epiphany is the sudden realization or manifestation of understanding, and in the "Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin, a woman experienced an epiphany that ultimately had tragic results. The tragedy was foreshadowed in the first line when the narrator informed the reader of Mrs. Mallard's heart trouble and the problems it could bring when informing her of her husband's death. But instead of being the cause of tremendous sorrow, the death of her husband brought about a sudden realization of the freedom she would now have because she is no longer married and under the control of her husband. But Mrs. Mallard's epiphany, her realization of the freedom she'll now possess, became the cause of her tragedy. Just as she was beginning to enjoy the fruits of her epiphany, her heart trouble, which many believed would cause her trouble when the news of her husband's death reached her, actually caused her trouble when she suffered a heart attack brought on by joy.

1.In choosing a male narrator, Fitzgerald undoubtedly creates a bias, and forces oppression to some degree against woman. Nick Carraway, a male, is responsible for what perspective the novel is portrayed from. In addition to the male viewpoint, there exist a large amount of strong male characters; which creates a great inequity between the genders. Fitzgerald is able to freely express his views on women through the copious amount of males. It is certain that contrasting ideas and opinions would be expressed if the novel were written from a woman’s point of view.

Both Mary and Madge experience a sorrow, both deep and artificial in their respectful outcome as both women are victim to Atwood’s suffrage. With her role playing in feminism, Atwood points out the men of the story and their vague exception to the suffrage or emotional rides. John, is the lead lover. He sets the pace with being the perfect man in scenario A and acting sexually orientated in scenarios B and C. Fred displays the other side to the spectrum, that “represented in the ideal view of Atwood’s father, as the secondary male in a feminist world” (Karlsen-Holmen 3). Fred also lives up to be the perfect man in his scenario A, but as life couldn’t be all great for those in society, he dies of love that kills.

Literature is a constant reminder that not all ideas are written out in plain paper and pen. The setting, characters, symbols, and plots can be hidden within the story, the way that they are hidden within “A Glimpse of Scarlet”. Lisa is walking through a quiet New York City when she comes upon a man leaving a house but notices that he was not alone. She realizes that the affair that the man was leaving is an affair Lisa knew too well. Lisa goes into detail about how a husband might find out the affair is happening in such detail that the reader questions is that is the way that Lisa's husband finds out in her first marriage about her affair “while the two of them whispered upstairs, on those musky sheets, her husband might easily be stepping