“The Magic Barrel” is written by Bernard Malamud and “Gimpel the Fool” is written by Issac Bashevis Singer. Both Authors are Jews and portray some similarity and parallelism in their stories. In “The Magic Barrel”, Leo Finkle, a rabbinical student acted like a fool all his life by not engaging in social life until his […]
Salzman Salzman is the matchmaker in Bernard Malamud’s “The magic Barrel”, who helped Leo Finkle, a rabbinical student, to find a wife in other to win a congregation after graduation. Salzman taught Leo how to love others and himself. Salzman played a contradicting role by praying to redeem his daughter from Leo’s love because Leo […]
The “Young Goodman Brown” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” are both short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The stories portray colonial scene or a time far past before the American Revolution and they have their scene set at the same place, Boston. The stories are very similar in context but there are some differences in […]
Katherine Anne Porter uses many objects to convey meaning of how hidden wisdom can be discovered in “The Grave”. These symbols are the center piece of knowledge without which the story will be vague and tasteless. Katherine uses the dove, the ring, the rabbit, and the grave to express the main character’s journey from innocence […]