if Death of a Salesman was a naturalist play. I thought that it was sad enough, and seemed to be telling us materialistic Americans to

I really liked Frost's poem "Departmental" because it is rather satirical and I thought it was pretty funny...

I probably need to take a mythology class before trying to understand Pound

it is odd that Du Bois calls the caste distinction emasculating--why not dehumanizing or something less gender specific?

is there a biblical allusion on pg 991 (Maggie) when the baby reaches out to touch Maggie's dress? It sounds so much like the woman...

will Crane and London be on the online quiz for this week?

that the "pigeon house" is a good place for Edna to live because she never was able to break free from the domesticated life successfully.

rereading The Awakening. I think that the style is too "in your face" for my taste. But I did like the image of "gangrene passion."

Daisy's mother and father are very similar to the parental figures in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury-Absent father and sickly, weak mom