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The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)
A story that consists of an unhappy woman in her marriage that shows themes of oppression, feminism, freedom, and gender identity
birds (awakening)
symbolizes the lives women live and how some feel trapped in their marriages
Water (The Awakening)
symbolizes the individuality that Edna feels and her freedom throughout the story
Edna throwing her wedding band
symbolizes her bond breaking
Feminism in the Awakening
Edna shows breaking numerous societal rules for women and chooses to be "free" and does what she wants which opposes the traditional "housewife" who cares for her kids
Great Gadsby
A story that follows Nick Caraway who discovers his mysterious neighbor who throws large parties who is trying to find love with this one specific girl who is in a band marriage situation
Grey in Great Gatsby
symbolizes thrown away morals and "garbage". Also represents the forgotten
green in the great Gatsby
symbolizes money but also symbolizes desire and jealousy
White in Great Gatsby
Innocence, life, neutrality
Blue in the Great Gatsby
Labor and Loneliness
Gold in the Great Gatsby
wealth, compassion
Edna Pontellier
The twenty-eight-year-old wife of a New Orleans businessman, who grew up in Kentucky. She suddenly finds herself dissatisfied with her marriage and the limited, conservative lifestyle that it allows. She emerges from her semi-conscious state of devoted wife and mother to a state of total awareness, in which she discovers her own identity and acts on her desires for emotional and sexual satisfaction. She is fond of music and drawing/painting. She lives on Esplanade Street with her husband, until her move to the pigeon-house.
Leonce Pontellier
Wealthy husband of Edna and a successful businessman
Mademoiselle Reisz
A talented pianist and somewhat of a recluse, she represents independence and freedom and serves as a sort of muse for Edna.
Adele Ratignolle
Edna's friend, the epitome of perfect womanhood from this era. Mother of five. Wife to Alphonse Ratignolle. Warns Robert to stay away from Edna. Final wishes to Edna are to think of her children.
Robert Lebrun
Charismatic young man who falls in love with Edna during her summer on Grand Isle; has a history of maintaining mock romances with unattainable women.
Alcee Arobin
Who was the charming man, "the player", in New Orleans
Doctor Mandelet
Léonce and Edna's family physician; an old friend of Léonce's. He is one of the few characters who seems to come close to understanding Edna.
colonel (awakening)
The Colonel, a former Confederate officer in the Civil War, is Edna's father. He is a strict Protestant and believes that husbands should manage their wives with authority and coercion. While Edna's relationship with her father is not affectionate, she is surprised by how well she gets along with her father when they are together.
Victor Lebrun
Robert's younger brother who spends his time chasing women
Nick Carroway
Narrator of The Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby (James Gatz)
The protagonist of the novel; he lives in a mansion next to Nick's bungalow at west egg, he changed his name at age 17 when he first sees Dan Cody's yacht on Lake Superior. He makes a living in racketeering, bootlegging, and other mysterious occupations. He and Daisy were romantically involved before he left for the army. He states repeatedly that he was in the army in world war 1 and earned several medals of honor. He attended St. Olaf College briefly, worked as a janitor there, and says he attended Oxford University in England for 5 months in 1919. His las name incorporates the slang word for "gun"
Daisy Buchanan
Nick's cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband's constant infidelity.
Tom Buchanan
Daisy's immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick's social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.
Jordan Baker
Daisy's friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the "new women" of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.
Myrtle Wilson
Tom's lover
George Wilson
Myrtle's husband, the lifeless, exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom. George is consumed with grief when Myrtle is killed. George is comparable to Gatsby in that both are dreamers and both are ruined by their unrequited love for women who love Tom.
Owl Eyes
The eccentric, bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion. Nick finds Owl Eyes looking through Gatsby's library, astonished that the books are real.
Klipspringer
The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby's mansion, taking advantage of his host's money. As soon as Gatsby dies, Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral, but he does call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that he left at Gatsby's mansion.
Meyer Wolfsheim
Gatsby's friend, a prominent figure in organized crime. Before the events of the novel take place, Wolfsheim helped Gatsby to make his fortune bootlegging illegal liquor. His continued acquaintance with Gatsby suggests that Gatsby is still involved in illegal business.
Dan Cody
Worldly mentor of Jay Gatsby. He took Gatsby under his wing when Gatsby was a young man and taught him much about living adventurously and pursuing dreams.
Valley of Ashes
George and Myrtle live here, Poor area, scene of death, located between east and west egg
East Egg
old money
West Egg
new money
Green light in the Great Gatsby
Represents Gatsby hope and dreams for the future
The Telephone in the Great Gatsby
Symbolizes trouble is near
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
It is about George Milton and Lennie
Small, two migrant ranch workers trying to find work in the Great Depression.As they move from one place to another in California searching for
any job they can get, they run into misfortune
and tragedy. • Lennie kills his boss's
wife and has to run, and George in turn kills Lennie out of "mercy". The book is required
reading in many schools, but is often targeted by censors for its racist and offensive language
Themes in Of Mice and Men
friendship
courage
love
differences
temptations
sacrifices
empathy
conflict
relationships
love and loss
brothers
dreams
compromise
life on the road
American dream/ Great depression
Loneliness (Of Mice and Men)
sadness because one has no friends or company
American Dreams in Of Mice and Men
Finding Independence and freedom through success
Lennie
large childlike migrant worker, loves animals and soft things, wants to own rabbits
George
small and wiry, cares for Lennie, working to get money to buy a farm
Candy (Of Mice and Men)
old ranch worker
lost one of his hands in a farming accident
emotionally destroyed
wants to fit into George and Lennie's dream
Curley's wife
dresses in fancy red shoes, lonely, men think she is a tramp, temptation for the men, name never mentioned
Crooks
black stable-hand, crooked back from an accident, isolated because of race, wants to join the farm group
Curley
son of the ranch owner, wears high-heeled boots to distinguish himself from the ranch hands, champion prize-fighter, confrontational, mean-spirited, picks fights, possessive and jealous of his wife.
Slim (Of Mice and Men)
mule driver
person of advice
wise
comforts George after he killed Lennie
Carlson
ranch hand, complains about Candy's dog, owns a gun
The boss (of mice and men)
The stocky, well-dressed man in charge of the ranch, and Curley's father. He is never named and appears only once, but seems to be a fair-minded man. Candy happily reports that the boss once delivered a gallon of whiskey to the ranch-hands on Christmas Day.
Aunt Clara
Lennie's aunt, cared for him until her death, gave him mice to pet
Whit (Of Mice and Men)
ranch hand
Lennie's death
The death of Candy's dog foreshadows
American Dream in the Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby shows the tide turning east, as hordes flock to New York City seeking stock market fortunes. The Great Gatsby portrays this shift as a symbol of the American Dream's corruption. It's no longer a vision of building a life; it's just about getting rich.
