American Literature

American

Nathaniel Hawthorn, Nationality

American

Herman Melville, Nationality

American

Henry James, Nationality

American

William Faulkner, Nationality

American

Flannery O'Connor, Nationality

American

Corman McCarthy, Nationality

American

Alice Walker, Nationality

Hawthorne

Close Relationship with Herman Melville

Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter, Author

Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown, Author

Hawthorne

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Author

Hawthorne

Author: The Minister's Black Veil / The House of the Seven Gables / The Birth-Mark / My Kinsman, Major Molineux

The Scarlet Letter

Massachusetts Bay Colony / Hester Prynne / wear a red letter A

The Scarlet Letter

Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fathers the illegitimate child Pearl with Hester Prynne

The Scarlet Letter

Reverend Dimmesdale dies after giving a sermon

The Scarlet Letter

A meteor passes while several characters are standing on a scaffold

Young Goodman Brown

17th Century New England / Venture in Forest / Meets the Devil

Young Goodman Brown

Goodman’s wife, Faith, joins a Satanic ritual

Young Goodman Brown

“no hopeful verse” is carved on a tombstone

Young Goodman Brown

Goody Cloyse is given a staff that looks like a snake

Young Goodman Brown

Goodman finds his wife’s pink ribbon on a tree branch

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Water from the fountain of youth to elderly people

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Three men fight over Widow Wycherly

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Dr. Heidegger was engaged to Sylvia Ward, who gave him a rose before she died

Melville

Close Relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne

Melville

Moby Dick, Author

Melville

Billy Budd, Author

Melville

Author: Bartleby, Thy Scrivener / Typee

Moby Dick

Ishmael and Captain Ahab of the Pequod, vengence against the whale

Moby Dick

Begins with “Call me Ishmael”

Moby Dick

Father Mapple gives a sermon

Moby Dick

Ishmael says he felt a “damp, drizzly November” in his soul

Moby Dick

The crew includes the first mate Starbuck and harpooner Queequeg

Moby Dick

Ishmael uses a coffin as a life raft after the Pequod sinks

Billy Budd

Follows a sailor on a Royal Navy Ship

Billy Budd

Billy Budd accidentally kills John Claggart

Billy Budd

A surgeon and a purser discuss muscle spasms and free will

Billy Budd

Ends with a ballad about Billy Budd “in the Darbies”

Billy Budd

Billy Budd takes advice from an old man named Dansker

James

Philosopher brother William

James

Became a British citizen in 1915

James

The Turn of the Screw, Author

James

The Portrait of a Lady, Author

James

Daisy Miller, Author

James

Author: The Bostonians / The Ambassadors / The Princess Casamassima

Turn of the Screw

Governess believes her children are haunted

Turn of the Screw

An unnamed governess looks after children at Bly, including Miles

Turn of the Screw

Miles dies in his governess’ arms

Turn of the Screw

Features the ghosts Peter Quint and Miss Jessel

The Portrait of a Lady

Follows Isabel Archer travels to Europe and meets men interested in her

The Portrait of a Lady

Isabel marries Gilbert Osmond, who turns out to be manipulative and controlling

The Portrait of a Lady

Pansy is revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of Madame Merle

Daisy Miller

Frederick Winterbourne;s pursuit of title character

Daisy Miller

Daisy dies from Roman fever (malaria) after visiting the Colosseum

Daisy Miller

Daisy chooses the Italian man Mr. Giovanelli instead of Winterbourne

Faulkner

most novels set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi

Faulkner

Associated with Southern Gothic Literature

Faulkner

served in Royal Canadian Air Force during WW1

Faulkner

A Rose for Emily, Author

Faulkner

As I Lay Dying, Author

Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury, Author

Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!, Author

Faulkner

Author: Light in August / Barn Burning / Go Down, Moses

A Rose for Emily

Emily Grierson has corpse of boyfriend Homer Barron in house after he died

A Rose for Emily

A strand of gray hair is found next to Homer Barron’s corpse

A Rose for Emily

Lime is sprinkled around Emily’s house to mask a smell

A Rose for Emily

Emily buys arsenic, allegedly to kill rats

A Rose for Emily

Emily claims that a former mayor, Colonel Sartoris, gave her a lifetime tax exemption

As I Lay Dying

Bundren Family try to bury Mothers body in town of Jefferson

As I Lay Dying

The entire text of one chapter is “My mother is a fish.”

As I Lay Dying

Anse Bundren buys false teeth

As I Lay Dying

Dewey Dell receives fake abortion pills and then is raped

As I Lay Dying

Gillespie’s barn is burnt down by Darl

As I Lay Dying

Jewel, a child who was conceived in an affair, runs away

The Sound and the Fury

Compson siblings as family descends into chaos and disorder

The Sound and the Fury

Quentin Compson, a Harvard student, drowns himself in the Charles River (near Boston)

The Sound and the Fury

The intellectually disabled Benjy says that “Caddy smelled like trees”

The Sound and the Fury

As a child, Caddy gets mud on her underwear (or “drawers”), a symbol of her future sexual promiscuity

Absalom, Absalom!

rise and fall of plantation owner Thomas Sutphen, Narrated by Quentin Compson to roommate

Absalom, Absalom!

Ends with the question “why do you hate the south?”

Absalom, Absalom!

Henry Sutphen murders his sister’s fiance, Charles Bon

Absalom, Absalom!

The Sutphen family’s plantation is called “The Hundred”

OConnor

Second American Gothic author

OConnor

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Author

OConnor

Wise Blood, Author

OConnor

Everything That Rises Must Converge, Author

OConnor

Author: Good Country People / The Violent Bear it Away

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Trip to Florida, family gets slaughtered by escaped convict called The Misfit

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Pitty Sing, a cat, causes a car to crash into a ditch

A Good Man is Hard to Find

The Misfit states that a grandmother “would have been a good woman” if there was “somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life”

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Characters eat at Red Sammy’s restaurant, known as “The Tower”

A Good Man is Hard to Find

A watermelon has the initials E. A. T. carved into it

Wise Blood

Hazel Motes finds family home abandoned after returning from WWII, forms anti-religious ministry and becomes an Atheist

Wise Blood

Hazel Motes creates the “Church Without Christ”

Wise Blood

Enoch Emery murders a man with an umbrella handle and steals his gorilla costume

Everything that Rises

Civil Rights movement, Julian and his mother on an integrated bus

Everything that Rises

Julian’s mother gives a black child a penny after riding an integrated bus

Everything that Rises

The mother of a black child, who wears a purple hat, assaults Julian’s mother, giving her a stroke

McCarthy

No Country for old men takes name from W.B. Yates poem

McCarthy

Blood Meridian, Author