The American Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was a regional novelist whose work depicted Maine settings and personalities.Sarah Orne Jewett was born in the village of South Berwick, Maine, on Sept. 3, 1...
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Sarah Orne Jewett is best known as the author of The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), a loosely structured novel that is considered by many to be the finest example of regional literature published...
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Although not included among major American writers, Sarah Orne Jewett ranks high among those who have drawn upon the people, places, and culture of nineteenth-century New England for the substance of ...
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"Don't try to write about people and things, tell them just as they are." Sarah Orne Jewett quoted this advice from her father in one of her few nonfiction articles, "Looking Back on Girlhood," first ...
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In the essay below, Jobes traces the influence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel The Pearl of Orr's Island on Jewett's art, particularly her self-definition as an artist.
Sarah ...
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In this essay, Brenzo explains the symbolism of Sylvia's climb up the pine tree.
The use of a juvenile narrator or a child's point of view seems especially common in American literatu...
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In the following essay, Hovet analyzes “A White Heron” from a Freudian perspective, determining that the work portrays both the conflict between urban society and the natural world and a...
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In the essay below, Hovet demonstrates how “A White Heron” employs the fairy tale structure as defined by Vladimir Propp.
Sarah Orne Jewett's “A White Heron” is o...
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In the following extract, Atkinson points out how Jewett portrayed the action in “A White Heron” from different viewpoints, including that of the main characters, the great pine tree ant...
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In the excerpt below, Renza discusses the pros and cons of a radical feminist reading of “A White Heron.” Furthermore, he explores the father-daughter relationship and the psychosexual i...
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In the essay below, Ammons discusses the myths, narrative form, and themes of the story.
Let us imagine that we live in a culture where time is a cycle, where the sand dollar lies beside its fossil...
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In the following essay, Heller explores Jewett's use of tense shifts, apostrophes to objects in the story, and direct address by the narrator, techniques that were found in sentimental fiction ...
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In the following essay, Zanger compares and contrasts the themes, settings, narrative sequences, imagery, and dynamics of “A White Heron” with Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story &#...
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In the article below, Moreno explicates “A White Heron” as a feminist quest myth in which Sylvia's journey has a psychological, physical, and spiritual meaning that can be interpr...
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A White Heron
In Sarah Orne Jewett's, "A White Heron," her descriptive use of imagery embodies a "subtle critique of materialistic values"(language worksheet). In "A White Heron," Jewett portrays th...
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Gaining knowledge is not something that happens subtly in youth, but rather occurs in shimmering explosions in the origins of the mind - instant mountains of knowledge are created in a mere moment's t...
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A White Heron
In "A White Heron," Sarah Orne Jewett dramatized the breathtaking adventure of Sylvia, a small girl who sets out to climb the old pine tree that "towered above them all." Throughout th...
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From the story "A White Heron", we realize how important it is for a human to appreciate nature before they can conserve it.
It is a typical characteristic of human to be selfish by nature. They do...
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Sarah Orne Jewett
(Theodora) Sarah Orne Jewett
Critical Essay by Katharine T. Jobes
A White Heron
