The short story by Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, is a first person narration about a copyist who refuses to do the job he was hired for and the inability of the narrator, the scrivener’s boss, to dismiss his disruptive employee. The narrator is a “rather elderly man” who is such an “unambitious lawyer” that those who know him consider him to be “eminently safe” and a wealthy business owner who seldom loses his temper, believes that “the easiest way of life is the best” (143). With the unplanned growth of his business, the narrator feels that he must hire a new employee, a scrivener, to copy the incoming law documents. Even with the narrator being a successful business owner, he fails to confront his employees about their shortcomings within his employment simply because he is so nonconfrontational.

Suspenseful Foreshadowing

by Loving Healer

Essay / Literary Fiction

February 16, 2014

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Summary

An essay my English teacher assigned about a literary device on a radio drama called: "Sorry, Wrong Number."

THE DEDICATORY LETTER TO MRS. ARABELLA FERMOR BY ALEXANDER POPE- THE RAPE OF THE LOCK

by Rituparna Ray Chaudhuri

Essay / Literary Fiction

March 23, 2014

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Summary

"The Rape of the Lock which is a classic work of the eighteenth century has achieved an immortal fame,full of the satiric wit and a discussion of the turn-of phrase in the poem reached for more than two centuries." [Followed from the version of Dr. S.Sen's A Critical Evaluation on The Rape of the Lock]

Theme Analysis of The Cold Equations

by danilalt

Essay / Literary Fiction

December 01, 2015

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It's a theme analysis of the Cold Equations

The Morals of Fathers

by History guy

Essay / Literary Fiction

August 04, 2012

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In Junot Diaz’s short story “Fiesta, 1980” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” both fathers in each story are alike in the discipline of their children and their financial standings but, their ideals towards relationships differ greatly. Papi, the father in “Fiesta, 1980” is a adulteress womanizer, who at times is also temperamental and aggressive towards the punishment of his children. Similarly, Mrs. Emily, who is the protagonist in “A Rose for Emily” has been raised by a single father who is over protective and a strict disciplinarian. However similar both fathers may be, it is easy to see the influences that they have in the lives of their children.