Patrick McGrath

In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her personal life to create a fictional narrative about the treatment of women in late 1800’s, mental illnesses in the 1800’s along with how far the human mind can go before it snaps. Why does Charlotte Perkins Gilman expose her life through the lines of her story? She wrote this story to show how the yellow wallpaper itself represents the isolation of women. Gilman displays this by indirectly stating a women’s position in…

As White, Patrick says in his “The Cask of Amontillado” A Case for the Defense, “He has his reasons for what he does, and these are reasons we should he ahle to understand. Therein lies a deeper horror in the story.” By living the words Nemo me impune lacessit , Montresor…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…