Matt's Journal Blog

1. What is the significance of the story’s title? The narrator is an American in Italy and does not know the place. The It...

1. What is the significance of the poem’s epigraph? How does it relate to Prufrock? The epigraph tells about a man, Count Guido, who i...

“Determinisim governs everything … The writer must study the inherited traits of individual character and the social condition of the time. ...

1. Write a sentence that summarizes the story’s overall message, and provide three direct quotes from the story that best illustrate this ...

“Richard Cory“ (497) Richard Cory was looked up to by other people. He was the “perfect” man. Cory had wealth, and intellect....

1. What object symbolizes George Gray’s life? How is this object representative of him? The object that symbolizes Geaorge G...

Young Goodman Brown – the fall of man and the inclination to sin. Innocence and the desire to be good. Stained sin. Faith – represen...