Jane Mallett

Dame Muriel Spark (Feb. 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) “an arcane puzzle in the mapping of contemporary literature” (Sawada 11), occupies an important place among the post-war British novelists. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Quite early in her life she decided to adopt writing as a profession and began writing seriously after the war. Spark started her writing career with poetry and literary criticism, under her married name.…

Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” looks into the complex lives of the Bennet family. The novel takes place around the 1800’s in Hertfordshire, Great Britain. The Bennets consists of five unmarried sisters, an overbearing mother, and a lackadaisical Mr. Bennet. The excitement begins when an upscale estate known as Netherfield park is occupied by the rich, handsome Mr. Bingley, accompanied by his sister Caroline and his close, mysterious friend Mr. Darcy. The newcomers attend a dance,…

Suspicions on Lou Ann As it was said before, Lou Ann’s attitude was suspicious all the way. Her bitter relation with her husband was well-known by the time, but being so upbeat and cheerful in Jerry’s funeral? There was a missing piece. Even more, she didn’t appear on court a single day of the trial. Not for Jerry, not for her best friend. Not even on the day of the verdict. She was the great absent in the courtroom. Further strangely, the prosecutor’s theory was that both Lou Ann and Debra…

Questions response two After getting into the text of The Great Gatsby, my beginning to end impression of the characters has most definitely changed. In the beginning of the novel, I had first thought Daisy was a sweet and loving character. I had also picked up on her being materialistic. In the final chapters she had started showing her true colors. I had known she was materialistic and loved money, but I did not think she was so shallow and selfish to not attend Gatsby’s funeral and give…

William Faulkner’s literary classic, Absalom, Absalom! is, to say the least, a beautifully complex story of the south told through the interwoven narrative of many different narrators. What makes this great, American novel so commendable is not only how Faulkner tells the story, but the complicated characters he creates within it. There are very few authors who have mastered the complexity of women, and the juxtaposition between what is said about them, and what the truth is, quite like Faulkner…

Jeanette Walls, an American writer and journalist, tells the story of her early life in her hit novel Glass Castle. The novel spans from her toddler years and finishes off in present times. Walls uses great tools and techniques to make the reader feel as if they were right there with her on her journey. Jeanette Walls’ novel, Glass Castle, can be represented by the following quote by Thomas Merton: “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to…

Kathryn Burn’s book, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru, provides an indepth look at colonial society throughout three centuries through the inner workings of a convent. The author is able to skillfully guide the reader through an analysis of the colonization of Cuzco, the most important Andean city in Southern Peru, from the insides of a convent of cloistered women. In the colonization of the Americas the nuns were in no way isolated from the outside world. In…

your perspective. Throughout Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys two different journeys are told. Jane Eyre tells the story of a trouble young orphan who eventually becomes the wife of someone who cares very deeply for her. On the other hand, Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea is a secluded young child who lives to become mentally crazy and a drunk after suffering through a troubled childhood and marriage. Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, and Jean Rhys,…

In the essay “Stereotypical, but Revengeful and Defiant: Addie Bundren in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying” written by Amado Chan, he declares that Addie Bundren is”portrayed as incompetent, unfulfilled, and dead” along with revengeful and defiant. Chan believes that these became stereotypical traits of women that Faulkner wrote. I refute the claim made by Chan since Addie propelled te plot of the novel. Chan's compelling claims ignored any evidence that may refute them. The first stereotypical trait…

In The Poisonwood Bible, there are characters that are not given a direct voice. These characters are developed through the voice of the Orleanna Price and her four daughters. One of the characters that do not have a direct voice are the Congolese. The Congolese is developed in very different views from all the four daughters. Each one of the daughters has a different view on the Congolese lifestyle and their beliefs. The youngest daughter, Ruth May Price, does not quite understand the…