Essay 1 Essay 3 Write on one of the following topics. Just as Wallace Stevens documents disillusionment or disappointment in the lack of imagination some people show, several of the works we have read treat other types of disillusionment. Using two or three works, discuss how disillusionment is featured in them. Sometimes what makes literature more interesting and realistic is its treatment of the distances between people rather than the closeness people might share. Write a paper in which you explore this topic of distance and its implications in two or three works.
Authors use many devices to flesh out the characters in their stories and poems.
Choose three works in which you feel the characterization is particularly strong and discuss how the writers create such successfully drawn characters.