Project Summary: Here are some possible topics, though you are not limited to them: Allegories: Young Goodman Brown and The Open Boat Coming of age: the young men in Araby and Barn Burning Compare and contrast any two characters or works Compare and contrast Howards End the novel and Howards End the film Heroic heroines: Edna Pontellier, Margaret Schelegel, Phoenix Jackson Is Edna Pontellier a tragic heroine? Inadequate males in Howards End Journeys: Young Goodman Brown and A Worn Path Men and women in love: The Lady with the Dog, The Awakening, Howards End, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter The human condition and The Open Boat The importance of money in Howards End The influence and the influenced: Maupassant and Chopin The uses of Gothic: Hawthorne, Poe, Gilman, Faulkner Violence in The Cask of Amontillado and Barn Burning What’s going on in Hills Like White Elephants? Women’s plight: The Yellow Wallpaper, The Awakening, Howards End, The Chrysanthemums