... snack. She simply must have a light lunch with a stuffed tomato. The tomato simply must be stuffed with celery. No one must dare jostle Gloria in her routines. But alas, the waiter brings a tomato stuffed with chicken. No baby in a high chair faced with spinach responds more angrily than she. She bangs her fist on the table, glares at the ... waiter, stamps her feet, insults Anthony, complains about the injustice of the universe. And no baby in a high chair is more pampered, petted, and queenly crowned than she in her youth- ... without mercy." They trap their men with flirtations and ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... nerve and degenerate into parlaver wholly," Thoreau writes: "[O]ur lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far-fetched, through slides and dumb-waiter, as it were; in other words, the parlor is so far from the kitchen and workshop." (55) Thoreau tropes upon the metonymic or associative origins of the word "parlor" (the ... ...

• Word Count: 9971
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate