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…The Macmillan dictionary for students defines “stranger” as: 1. Person with whom one is not acquainted or familiar. 2. Foreigner, outsider, or newcomer. 3. One who is ignorant of, unacquainted with, or unaccustomed to something specified. In the book…

…“Mulholland Drive is a place where dreams and nightmares meet.” David Lynch What do an aspiring actress, a beautiful stranger, a frustrated film director, a sinister cowboy, a gritty assassin, and a scary sorcerer all have in common? They are all…

…, Blanche turns to drinking and meaningless sex. She takes the alcohol to stop the polka music, symbolic of Allan's death, from running on in her head and to avoid the reality of her life. She submits her body to various strangers in an attempt to lose herself…

…the truth of her life. She surrenders her body to various strangers in an attempt to lose herself. She seduces young boys in memory of Allan. But her empty heart finds no peace, and her bad reputation ends her teaching career. Blanche is an escapist who says…

…in a friend, but settling for an ear of a stranger.   Although these characters seem at ease and friendly on the surface, a deep sense of loneliness lingers in the hearts of  Crooks, George, and Curley's wife, they are all desperate to find an escape from being…

…), and could not tell if he is looking at a man or a woman. With a face pale from lack of food and injuries, Inman, who is extremely trusting for an outlier, approaches this stranger in hopes of receiving food, without which he might not be able to reach his final…

…to a stranger as, "they have doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory, and then thereafter, for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom."(58) This scene shows the weight of values…

…responded to her own sister in a harsh manner to defend a complete stranger. This shows that she is too kind hearted to lie to somebody and pretend to be somebody else. Aunt Sally was also another character that could not be in a disguise. Aunt Sally takes up…

…. She exposes herself to the stranger and he, in turn, uses the very things that are important to her as a weapon against her. Eliza now becomes helpless and can do nothing to change this. The peddler can now proceed into doing what he wants, manipulating…

…family of Thebes as the King’s son. The God had told Oedipus’s mother that she had to get rid of him because he would kill his father and marries his mother. Therefore, Oedipus’s mother ended up giving Oedipus to a stranger and asked him to kill Oedipus…