Dorothy Parker

“Men,” Parker present’s men’s love appears misleading and controlling. Parker asserts that men “hail [women] as their morning star / Because [they] are the way [they] are” (“Men” 1-2). In order to initially capture the hearts of women, men knowingly tell women exactly what they want to hear in hopes of winning them over. Parker believes that men idolize all the natural features that a woman possesses and disillusion her into believing that he worships her as well as her natural beauty. Parker…

Who is “A Certain Lady”? Although Dorothy Parker, author of “A Certain Lady”, only “explicitly names herself as the protagonist” in two of her works (Helal 77), it seems that she embodies the speaker of this poem. The speaker is a manipulative woman who is apparently an amazing actress. Parker has also been said to “cunningly manipulate her autobiographical monologues both to exploit the literary market and to critique the limiting effects of celebrity culture on women writers” (Helal 78).…

illustrates an image of love. The rose creates the feeling of warmth, support, and beauty. Dorothy Parker leads the reader to believe this romantic idea of love, until she shows she wants something more unique and spontaneous than a single rose with little to no meaning. Through archaic terminology, imagery, and symbolism, of the rose, Parker argues against the outdated view of love in society and literature. Dorothy Parker’s use of archaic terminology draws the reader to a feeling of old…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a novel written by L. Frank Baum, originally published on May 17, 1900. The novel tells the story of a young girl by the name of Dorothy and her journey through the world of Oz to find her way home. The novel has been connected to political topics by indirectly referencing the Populist Party, bimetallism, and Washington DC. The novel begins with a description of Dorothy’s life. She lives with her aunt and uncle in a small gray house, surrounded by gray fields in…

to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life” (The Stranger). How one decides to live their life is solely each for their own. “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Resumé” by Dorothy Parker, and “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy all focus on what life means to different individuals. Robinson expresses that looks can be illusory. The speaker of “Resumé” tells how painful death can be; and Piercy gives the idea that it is almost…

The Power of Non-Fiction Writing The universal theme throughout the four non-fiction pieces was cultural struggle. Each piece gave its own unique take about how foreign people have difficulty incorporating themselves into an unknown culture, and how members of a certain culture have difficulty escaping their current lifestyle. The power of non-fiction makes us as readers recognize the cultural hardship of integrating into a culture, and the hardship of migrating from one culture to another.…

By the end of World War I in 1918, a new decade was being born. The Twenties. The “Jazz Age” began shortly after World War I and ended with the 1929 stock market crash. During this decade, fashion became an important symbol of social status due to America’s advance with technology making focusing on fashion possible. The Twenties were a turning point for America, politically, as the country had made major advances in terms of women’s independence. This was in part due to the war because of the…

Candace Bushnell is an American television producer and novelist best known for writing a series of chick lit novels. Her best known works are the Sex and the City novels which were adapted from the columns by the same name that she wrote for the New York Observer between 1994 and 1996. Candace was born to Camile Salonia and Calvin L. Bushnell in 1958 Glastonbury, Connecticut. Her father was something of a celebrity in her town having been an inventor of the Air Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell that…

there were gender roles that were examined and portrayed to the author’s interpretation of their own experiences dealing with the gender roles society has exposed us to. In the story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and in the poem, “A Certain Lady” by Dorothy Parker, the societal views of each time period and gender roles are exposed to the reader and are critical in order to see that these gender roles are still present in our own society today. Both literary narratives are centered around a…

Author Kay Hooper writes romance and suspense novels and her novels have reached New York Times bestseller list. Hooper was born in 1958 in the state of California, and after her birth, her family moved to North Carolina where she grew up with her younger brother and sister. Her parents had three kids, of which Kay is the oldest. Once she started college, she found that none of the courses interested her, at least until she started her literature and history courses. It was here that she…