Essays and Research Papers on American Literature

A 3 page essay that discusses the time imagery in this short story. A principal component of William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" is the imagery that the author associates with time. The passage of time is integral to conveying the full import not only of Emily Grierson's psychosis, but also the relationship ...

This 10-page paper provides an analysis of the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

This 7 page paper discusses Holden Caulfield as an alienated teenager. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 8 page paper compares and contrasts the stories “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 6 page essay that discusses Nathaniel Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel The Scarlet Letter, which draws on his Puritan heritage, as it is set around the middle of the seventeenth century. The plot of the novel has tremendous psychological depth and complexity. Therefore, it can be analyzed from a variety of critical perspectives. This examination ...

A 3 page paper which discusses the insanity of Emily in William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper examines the poetry of Williams and argues that Williams has made a statement about place, but he has also managed to connect it with a general sense about humanity and human life. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper describes the way in which the book “Hemingway In Love and War” describes the background of the novel “A Farewell to Arms.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses the novel “The Great Gatsby” and some of the things going on in America at the time it was published that mark it clearly as a novel of the 1920s. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page essay that summarizes and analyzes Kate Chopin’s short story “The Storm.” The writer first discusses how Chopin’s perspective differed from the stereotype for women prevalent in the 19th century, which pictures women as asexual. The writer than explains that Chopin wrote stories containing overt sensuality, in which she pictured women as sexual ...

This 6 page paper discusses the book “Tunnel Kids,” about homeless children living in a storm tunnel that runs between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper discusses some of the sociolegal issues raised by Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.

In six pages this paper examines the nineteenth-century concept of separate spheres within the context of these works and also discusses how the women in each text conformed to these tenets and considers in what ways they challenged this ideology in their actions and in their writings. There are no additional sources listed in ...

This 5 page paper discusses the great similarities between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his character, Jay Gatsby, protagonist of “The Great Gatsby.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines how Huckleberry Finn could be seen as a poet. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 3 page paper which offers up a response to The City of Shells by Karen Russell. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper discusses Aristotle’s view of tragedy, tragic flaw, fate, luck, the concept of the tragic hero, irony and conflict in the plays “All my Sons” and “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses the novel “My Antonia” and why the purported writer (Jim) constructed this character the way he did. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 4 page paper which examines the struggle of James, in A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, as it relates to the book Tao te Ching. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page paper which examines who has been influenced by the work of Edgar Allen Poe. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses Don DeLillo’s darkly comic novel “White Noise,” and especially the passage detailing the toxic cloud. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper uses Barbara Kellerman’s book “Bad Leadership” to discuss Adolf Hitler, who was a bad leader according to her definition. It also discusses the concept of bad followers, and whether or not he was successful short and long term. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses some of the themes, characters and dialogue in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 3 page explication of Robert Frost’s brief poem “A Semi-Revolution,” which is, basically, a play-on-words that pivots around the various meanings of the word “revolution.” One meaning for “revolution” is to make one complete rotation around a central point, as in the earth making one revolution around the sun each year; however, another ...

This 3 page paper analyzes the development of the theme in the children’s book “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie, and the presentation of setting in “The Hours” by Michael Cunningham. Bibliography lists 3 sources.