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Abstract: The film All About Eve (1950) follows aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) as she idolizes, and attempts to usurp, aging actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). Margo is pressured into conformity of traditional femininity through marriage and … [Read more...] about All About Ageism: The Interplay of Sexism and Ageism in All About Eve

The poem “This Be The Verse” by Philip Larkin offers, at its surface, a cynical view of the world, where the only way to escape the perpetuation of cycles of pain and misery is to simply stop trying for the good things, like having children. Jehanne Dubrow makes the claim that … [Read more...] about “This Be The Verse” by Philip Larkin As A Nursery Rhyme

The main reason the students in “Jesus Shaves” by David Sedaris have trouble explaining the concept of Easter to a Moroccan classmate in their shared French class seems to be that none of them have enough French vocabulary to explain the concept. While the narrator explains the … [Read more...] about The Barrier to Translating Faith in “Jesus Shaves” by David Sedaris

Reversing the expectation of a traditional long song or love poem is a main component of the content and structure of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” By T. S. Eliot. The poem uses images of death, not to shock, but as a fact of life, such as a “patient etherized upon a … [Read more...] about Close Read of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” By T. S. Eliot

College is typically seen as a time and place to reinvent yourself: to find new interests, new hobbies, a new image. I know people who have entirely changed sleeping and cleaning habits, people whose entire wardrobes have been changed, people how listen to different music and … [Read more...] about Close Read of My Bookshelf