What are some similarities between the Misfit and the grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?

Both the Misfit and
the grandmother have questionable moral compasses. For the grandmother, the thing that matters
most is that one be a "good man" or act like a "lady." For example, her
daughter-in-law is not even named in the story; she is described as "a young woman in
slacks," and, later, she "still had on slacks," as though the grandmother finds
this choice of apparel inappropriate and distasteful in a woman because it isn't ladylike. The
grandmother herself wears a sailor hat and "navy blue dress" for a long car ride
because, "In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once
that she was a lady." These are her priorities. However, she is a terrible racist, using
slurs and making assumptions about black people that are dismissive and condescending. She is
also terribly selfish, pressuring her son to go where she wants to go, sneaking her cat into the
car, and even lying to cover up her own mistake when she realizes she has directed them awry.
She...

How is Oedipus being idealized in his discussion with the priest?

The nature
of the tragic hero is that he is a person greater than average in terms of power, intellect, and
strength, who ends up enduring suffering, partially due to fate and partially due to the nature
of his own character. Thus the play begins presentingat the height of his power, as the man who
saved Thebes by answering the riddle of the Sphinx. 

The priest wants
Oedipus' help in defeating the plague.To obtain it, he uses flattery in three ways. First, his
emphasis on how Thebans look up to and depend upon Oedipus flatters his ego. Next, in praising
Oedipus, the priest holds up a mirror to how Oedipus should behave in this crisis. Finally, he
appeals to Oedipus by suggesting that he will become an ideal to posterity as well as to the
present if he saves Thebes from the plague, and thus portrays the present ideal as something
that could be tarnished if Oedipus does not continue to benefit Thebes, saying

Dont let our memory of your ruling here

declare
that we were first set right again

and later fell.

What role do women play in Death of a Salesman and Fences? What is the role of women in both plays?

The hard work of
remaining grounded in reality,
of planning and carrying out practical domestic tasks to keep the
household
working and functioning, and of coping with the flaws, fancies, and moral failures
of
the "failed dreamers" (the patriarchs) falls to the wives in these two
stories. Rose
and Linda mediate between father and son as well. 

Linda and Rose are the
primary female figures in these texts, while
a mistress is also present in the narrative of each
story as well. As the
primary female figures, Linda and Rose present a number of

similarities. 

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What is p if AB is parallel to CD? A(1,p),B(-1,2),C(2,3),D(3,4)

You
should remember that the slopes of two parallel lines are equal, hence, you need to evaluate the
slopes of the lines AB and CD such...

According to the law of supply, which of the following represents the relationship between quantity supplied and price? A. move in same direction. B....

The law of
supply states that as the price of a product or service increases, the quantity supplied will
also increase. The reverse is true if the price of a product or service drops. Thus, the correct
answer to this question is the first choice or answer A. On a graph, the supply line moves
upward and to the right when the price is on the vertical axis and the quantity supplied is on
the horizontal axis.

In reality, the price of a product or service is
determined by the interaction between supply and demand. Thus, if suppliers provide too much of
a product or service, they will reach a point where they likely wont be able to sell everything
that they supplied.

When just considering supply, I am more willing to supply
my labor when the wage I receive is high. The higher the pay, the more likely I would be willing
to work. At some point, if the pay is too low, I wouldnt be willing to supply my labor. If I
could referee a high school basketball game for $150, I would be willing to work several games a
day, and I would work five or six days a week. On the other hand, if the pay rate for refereeing
a high school basketball game was $30, I probably wont work at all.

In "Battle Royal," who are the protagonist and the antagonist? Give examples from the story to support your answer.

Thein
"" is the narrator. The other nine African-American youth do not "care too
much" for him and are, therefore, not pleased that he will be at the fight, so they feel
antagonistic toward the narrator. In addition, there are other antagonists: the white men who
exploit them during the battle.

's narrator is invited to give a graduation
speech, and since he is going to be in the hotel for this speech, he is told that he might as
well participate in the battle royal with some of his schoolmates. This is a fight among the
youths that the town's "big shots" attend in their tuxedos.

The
narrator has his doubts about participating in this fight with them: he says, "I felt
superior to them in my way, and I didn't like the manner in which we were all crowded together
into the servants' elevator. Nor did they like my being there."

When
they arrive in the ring, the narrator hears the school superintendent yell, "Bring up the
shines, gentlemen! Bring up the little shines!"

The young men find
themselves there facing a naked white women. They are embarrassed, worried, aroused, and laughed
at during the exhibition. The narrator's teeth chatter in fear. As the woman begins to dance,
one boy pleads to go home, embarrassed at his uncontrollable physical reaction.

The older white men become very excited by the young woman and they delight in the
discomfort of the young men. After the young woman is removed, the African-American youth are
further exploited as they are blindfolded and told to hit each other. As the white men yell for
them to kill each other, the narrator recalls that "everyone fought hysterically. It was
complete anarchy." 

After the fight is over, the youths are told that
their money for fighting is on the rug. But, when they grab for it, they receive electric
shocks. The narrator finds himself knocked around and shocked repeatedly, and he later realizes
that the coins are brass advertising tokens.

When he finally is allowed to
give his speech, the narrator accidentally says "social equality" when he has meant to
say "social responsibility." Quickly, the narrator apologizes. Then, he is given a
briefcase that contains inside a scholarship to the state college for Negroes. The narrator is
so overjoyed that he does not even mind that the coins given him are merely brass pocket tokens
that advertise a certain make of an automobile.

What is the point of view of "The Open Window" and how can you tell?

In the short
story, "," by , the author uses a third-person omniscient point of view. What this
means is that the narrator is a not a part of the story but can share what the characters are
thinking and feeling. The reader learns about the characters from the third-person narrator as
the narrator conveys what the characters are thinking and feeling in the short story:

For the most part, the narrator shares Framton Nuttel's point of view. He is the one
who is nervous, calling upon strangers. He is the one who sits and listens to "Vera's tall
tale, not knowing it is a far-fetched story. He is the one who believes Vera's tall
tale.

Also, the reader believes Vera's tall tale and is just as engrossed in
the story as Mr. Nuttel is. The reader feels the eerie feeling as the men are heading toward the
open window.

Omniscient third-person point-of-view allows a narrator to share
a variety of points of view:

This allows a narrator to
portray events from a variety of points of view, conveying what all of the characters are doing
and what they are feeling or thinking.

We learn from the
narrator that Mr. Nuttel is truly afraid when he sees Mr. Sappleton and his brothers-in-law
coming toward the open window. We know what Mr. Nuttel is thinking by the way he quickly runs
away from the setting:

For most of the story, until he
runs from the house, the reader shares Mr. Nuttel's point of view. Like Mr. Nuttel, the reader
is at the mercy of Vera's story. The reader remains, however, after Mr. Nuttel has fled and thus
learns that Vera's story was nothing but a tall tale.