Louise McKinney

This essay will look primarily at William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ and through that, argue how the atmosphere of the environment Faulkner was raised in, has directly influenced his work, not only through its central plot themes of death and decay but also through the setting and environment of the story. The environment he was raised in, glorified the past and alienated people from the present. Faulkner however rejected those views and through his short story “A Rose for Emily” attacked…

women have challenged those stereotypes. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is a strong female character who goes against the stereotypes placed upon her, as a women in the early 1900’s. Similarly, in the movie Thelma and Louise, the best friend duo living in the late ‘80’s have to overcome obstacles thrown in their way because of the stereotypes they were facing. Most of these stereotypes were employed by men who think they know what is best for a woman, when in reality…

In Louise Erdrich’s enthralling novel Tracks, Pauline Puyat is a young woman of Chippewa and Canadian descent. Throughout the course of the story, it is abundantly clear that Pauline wishes nothing more than to shed her Native American culture. Instead of embracing her Chippewa roots, she wants be like her mother, “who showed her half-white”, and her grandfather, who was “pure Canadian” (Erdrich 14). While it is easy for the reader to assume that Pauline is willingly rejecting her Chippewa…

The climax of this issue is when society discovered that Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, had been born. The first medium is a recorded radio broadcast based out of England that included a description of the events that took place during the birth of Louise Brown. This recording may contain possible bias in that doctors may have left out complications in order to make the situation seem under control and…

Water Imagery and Symbolism in Love Medicine Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine conveys the state of Native American life in today’s society. Her symbolism stands out to me above all else in the book. While Erdrich uses many symbols and motifs, the most poignant is her water and river imagery and the symbolism behind it. She uses water to symbolize many concepts in the novel, most prominently time and religion. The passage of time being likened to the movement of a river is not an…

Page used the factor of appearance to define the term "flapper". To her, a "flapper" is a woman who is within the age limit (not quite a woman but also not a girl)that would have bobbed hair (the 'badge' of flapper hood) and stylish clothing that no decent women of earlier generations would have even thought about wearing. There were many different explanations of the flapper phenomenon. Some say that it's due to the fact that one-quarter to one-third of urban woman workers live alone, free…

Response Paper #3 In the film Thelma and Louise, two best friends plan a weekend road trip as a duo. This road trip was meant for Thelma and Louise to leave for a few days and have some time away from home. Thelma is a housewife whose husband bosses her around. Louise is a waitress, and who is Thelma’s best friend. Unfortunately during their roadtrip Louise and Thelma ran into some trouble. Due to the trouble that these ladies could face, their short trip away has turned into a long term getaway…

During the early twentieth century, the flapper style began to evolve. It involves women focusing more on their outward appearance and behavior to fit in with other ladies their age. This style seemed to be revolutionary for many women as they viewed the change in expectations for women as liberating. However, depending on the perspective the flapper style can be considered as either restricting or liberating for women. Contrasting perspectives are demonstrated through both Ellen Page’s article,…

Louise Erdrich is an artist in her own right. Her fiction and poetry are filled with mythical characters and settings drawn from her Chippewa heritage examining the complex relationships amongst Native Americans and their battles with the European American community. The different voices and imagery in her work had lead some to compare her to William Faulkner , according to American novelist Philip Roth,“She is, like Faulkner, one of the great American regionalists, bearing the dark knowledge of…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth.” (NGA, web) (May, 1) Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…