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  • Narrator

    She is a middle-aged woman who is in marriage and has children. However, she is not happy with her life because of the lack of feeling any spiritual bond with her family. The story is told in the form of a diary which this lady writes for herself in secret She struggles with her upgrowing…

  • Inspector

    When we hear the word ‘inspector’ we immediately realize mean and corrupted person who is caring only about himself, and don’t like paying attention to the problems of other people. And this Inspector isn’t an exception from rules. He is mean, not very smart but with a good amount of money. Once, his father, being…

  • Pozzo

    Pozzo is a character that acts after the introduction of all the other people. This man is represented by the author as a self-confident aristocrat who is incredibly rich, owns a significant number of slaves, and lives in a large manor. He is cruel and tends to use people around him or exploit them for…

  • Cannery Row Summary

    The book “Cannery Row” doesn’t have a single storyline that can be described accordingly. The timeline is shifting, there are a lot of interchapters, that are completely unrelated to the main story. Omitting the interchapters and sorting out the timeline, we can get the following picture: Cannery Row is a poor small town where everyone…

  • Black Like Me Summary

    ‘Black Like Me’ is written from the point of view of a white man, John Howard, during the 1950s, who keeps a journal starting from the year 1959 when he decides to temporarily change his skin color to black in order to have some firsthand experience of the racism African-Americans have to face on a…

  • Caroline Bascomb Compson

    Mrs. Compson is the mother of 4 children: Quentin, Candace, Jason and mentally deficient Benjy. She is always aching, considering herself sick, but in fact a healthy, manipulative, unpleasant, passive-aggressive woman. Her brother Maury, who lives with the Compsons, is a lazy alcoholic. After her daughter’s disappearing Mrs. Compson swears that her granddaughter, Quentin, would…

  • Northanger Abbey Summary

    This novel, though it is often considered quite lighthearted, touches some of the very important topics for its time. Mostly the readers see the average coming-of-age story of a young girl experiencing her first love. But the background is equally important to the main storyline: we see that feelings even of the young people are…

  • Sir Toby Belch

    Sir Toby Belch is represented by a mundane, cheerful fat man. He is witty, ironic, does not give up drinking. He is ready to compose humorous numbers and present them to the public. Sir Toby evaluates people not by their appearance, but by their inner content. This is vividly demonstrated by the episode with Maria,…

  • Sula Essays

    Comparisons of Sula and Breath, Eyes, Memory The Most Complex Relationship In Breathe, Eyes, Memory, Tante Atie usually tells about the chunk of the sky and flower petals story to explain from where Sophie was born, but of course, Sophie is not an exception of nature. Like billions of girls all over the world, she…

  • Ragnar Danneskjöld

    One of the strangest personages in the novel. His temper inspires fear and doubt, so people in business do not want to have affairs with him. His biography is decorated with exorcisms and terrible gossip, retelling his predatory raids. In fact, he is a pirate of the new time with the principles of a seasoned…