Category: Study Guides
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Viscount de Valvert
Valvert is not the main hero of the story. He is not good, not bad; he is just no one. Sometimes he is nice with other people; sometimes he insults them. That is why it is hard to say concrete what a person he was. Also, he didn’t have a lot of lines where we…
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Mrs. Walker
In Henry James Daisy Miller, Mrs. Walker in the 19th century is a tough and conservative type of European society. Although Mrs. Walker is an outwardly rich and elegant person, she is internally insecure and sensitive. She is very offended by Daisy’s disobedience, trying to explain the harmfulness of her unpredictable behavior. Daisy’s refusal of…
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Mrs. Who
Mrs. Who is another immortal being who helps Meg and her friends during their journey. As a human being, she is a plump woman wearing spectacles. She is well-educated and knows many foreign languages. Besides that, she always speaks quoting the famous works of literature and philosophy. The fact that everything she says is somebody…
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Connie Rivers
Connie is Rose of Sharon’s husband. He is nineteen years old, and he dreams to start going to school in California and work there on the radio. Those big dreams are a little bit too big to happen, but about this later. Connie is in love with Rose of Sharon. He wants to do everything…
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Comedy of Errors Summary
The play is about a merchant from Syracuse named Egeon who is mistakenly apprehended in Ephesus, a rival city of Syracuse. He is condemned to death for breaking a law about travelling between two cities and the only way to get rid of this situation is to give one hundred marks as ransom. However, the…
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Deputy Paul Bonin
Deputy Paul Bonin is a young white worker in a jail, where Jefferson is placed. Among other workers and officers, Paul shows a deep education and human attitude to the black people. He is the only sheriff that sympathize Jefferson and respects Grant. The difference in color of the skin did not take away his…
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M. Aemilius Lepidus
Lepidus is one of the three members of the ruling triumvirate in the Roman Empire. Lepidus disappears when people begin serious conversations. Only when there is talk about animals in Egypt M. Aemilius Lepidus is interested. He sometimes gets drunk, and this shows his indifference to the ruling position. This character is the weakest because…
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Little Father Time
Little Father Time doesn’t show up until really late in the novel, but boy does he make his role count. From the moment we meet the child of Jude and Arabella, we know something is a little off. He gets his nickname because he is “Age masquerading as Juvenility”—in other words, Little Father Time may…
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The Secret Sharer Summary
The narrator of the story is a captain whose name we never learn. He is still young, but the story he is reflecting about is of his first command. The story starts from him being on the deck of his anchored ship and looking over the sunset. The sun slowly goes down to Meinam river.…
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The “Portrait of an artist as a young man” is based on personal details from the early life of the famous Irish writer James Joyce. He began working on this novel in 1903 after the death of his mother. For the first time “Portrait of an…