... Cather makes sure to point out. Finally, at the end of the scene Cather puts the couple under the moonlight, which in most of Cather's stories has sexual connotation. Cather uses these symbolic moments in the scene to make the reader psychoanalyze Claude and attempt to figure out what is going on ... brings up that the soldier's memory of women is clearly wiped out Claude replies, "Maybe he's fortunate in that (Cather 1201). In that one short sentence Claude defines what kind of person he is because he sees this other man's disability as fortunate. After discussing the soldier with the d...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , both families would forbid the marriage even if the two young people are deeply in love. Such custom remains in few remote areas as a main cause of many tragic love stories. As very important information in the process of marriage, a girl's birth date was confidential to the strangers, and pretty much so today. Therefore nowadays, it is inappropriate to ask a girl ... area. The custom of using hair to represent love and marriage has been inherited all the way to the present. Even nowadays, some jilted girls would cut their long hair short as an indication that she's snipped the string ...

• Word Count: 9974
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: High School

... to the main women characters in Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve and Mahadevan's Shulamith, female characters in the 1980s assert themselves and defy marriage and family strictures. Chitra Fernando's collection of short stories Three Women, like Anita Desai's In Custody, portray women who want their individual worth realized and attempt to break through the suffering that traditional society offers them. The most recent ... ...

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