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American Lit Authors
Very Rough Draft
| Plot/Quote | Work | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Follows a suicidal character undergoing electroshock therapy | The Bell Jar (the character is Esther Greenwood) | Sylvia Plath |
| "Rises with red hair" | Lady Lazarus | Sylvia Plath |
| Describes a man "With a Meinkampf Look" | Daddy | Sylvia Plath |
| "Eats men like Air" | Lady Lazarus | Sylvia Plath |
| "You Bastard / I'm Through" | Daddy | Sylvia Plath |
| Contains Lady Lazarus, Daddy, and Tulips | Ariel Collection | Sylvia Plath |
| Had a figure comparing her life to a fig tree | The Bell Jar (the Character is Esther Greenwood) | Sylvia Plath |
| "Every Woman Adores a Fascist" | Daddy | Sylvia Plath |
| "I shall never get you put together entirely" | The Colossus | Sylvia Plath |
| "You do not do, You do not do" | Daddy | Sylvia Plath |
| "What Happens to a Dream Deferred" | Harlem | Langston Hughes |
| "They'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed" | I, too/I, too, sing America | Langston Hughes |
| "My soul has grown deep like the rivers" | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes |
| Described a man "drowning a drowsy syncopated tune" | Weary Blues | Langston Hughes |
| "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" | Harlem | Langston Hughes |
| "Go home and write a page tonight" | Theme for English B | Langston Hughes |
| "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" | Mother to Son | Langston Hughes |
| Includes the "Thought-Fox" | Hawk in the Rain Collection | Langston Hughes |
| "The Congo Lulled to Sleep" | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes |
| "He's trying to ruin the government And overturn the land | Ballad of the Landlord | Langston Hughes |
| Yossarion must escape a paradox | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Protagonist is stabbed by Nately's Whore | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Doc Daneeka performs serveral psych evaluations | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| A character buys excessive stores of Egyptian cotton and dips it in chocolate | Catch-22 (Character is Milo Minderbinder) | Joseph Heller |
| Protagonist's friend, Snowden, is killed | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| McWatt commits suicide after killing Kid Sampson | Catch-22 (he kills Kid Sampson) | Joseph Heller |
| Protagonist is forced to keep flying from Pianosa by Colonel Cathcart | Catch-22 (character is Yossarion) | Joseph Heller |
| Henry Fonda-lookalike Major Major Major Major is promoted by an IBM Machine | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Includes the character Sammy Singer and is a sequel to another work with | Closing Time (sequel to Catch-22) | Joseph Heller |
| Manhattan English Professor Bruce is offered to be the Jewish Secretary of State | Good as Gold | Joseph Heller |
| Described something "Perched upon a pallid bust of Pallas" | The Raven | Edgar Allen Poe |
| A man grieving "the lost Lenore" | The Raven (Lenore is the narrator's mother" | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Quoth "Nevermore" | The Raven | Edgar Allen Poe |
| A man is tortured by the Spanish Inquisition | The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Contains a man with a "Vulture Eye" | The Tell-Tale Heart (man is killed because of his vulture eye) | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Buries an organ under the floorboards | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Fortunato is imprisoned | The Cask of Amontadillo | Edgar Allen Poe |
| C. Auguste Dupin blames an orangutan | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Montresor tricks a man with promises of wine | The Cask of Amontadillo | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Jealous angels kill a women who lived in a "Kingdom by the Sea" | Annabel Lee | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Protagonist plays "The Haunted Palace on Guitar" | Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Roderick is strangled by Madeline after the title event | Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allen Poe |
| The "Mad Tryst" about the knight Aethelred is read | Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allen Poe |
| People "refuse to see" the protagonist | Invisible Man (narrator is unknown) | Ralph Ellison |
| Dr. Bledsoe expels protagonist from college | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Protagonist joins and speaks for "The Brotherhood" | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Fights Ras the Exhorter in a race riot | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Protagonist is expelled because he went to the Golden Day Bar with Mr. Norton | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Tod Clifton is shot for selling Sambo Dolls | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Protagonist lives underground with 1369 lightbulbs | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Protagonist works for Liberty Paints | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Contains "The World and the Jug" | Shadow and Act (essay collection) | Ralph Ellison |
| A boy grows up to be a race-baiting senator, Adam Sunraider | Juneteenth | Ralph Ellison |
| Reverand Alonzo Hickman raises a boy named Bliss | Juneteenth | Ralph Ellison |
| Longer version of "Juneteenth" | Three Days Before the Shooting | Ralph Ellison |
| Protagonist participates in a "Battle Royale" | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" | The Road Not Taken | Robert Frost |
| "Good fences make good neighbors" | The Mending Wall | Robert Frost |
| "I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost |
| "My horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near" | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost |
| Silas's return from the dead is discussed by Mary and Warren | The Death of a Hired Man | Robert Frost |
| Contains "The Mending Wall" and "Death of a Hired Man" | North of Boston (poetry collection) | Robert Frost |
| "One luminary clock against the sky proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right" | Acquainted with the Night | Robert Frost |
| Narrator outwalks "The Furthest City Light" | Acquainted with the Night | Robert Frost |
| "I Cannot Rub the Strangeness from my Sight" | After Apple-Picking | Robert Frost |
| "The Land was ours before we were the land's" | The Gift Outright | Robert Frost |
| Recited at JFK's 1961 Inauguration | The Gift Outright | Robert Frost |
| "One could do much worse than be a swinger of ______" | Birches | Robert Frost |
| "Eden sank to grief" | Nothing Gold Can Stay | Robert Frost |
| Thomas Putnam argues for more land | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Ezekiel Cheever discovers Marry Warrens's needle in a poppet/doll | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| John Proctor is eventually hanged | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Tituba is dancing with Abigail Williams and Betty Paris in a forest | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Allegorizes McCarthyism via the Salem Witch Trials | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Giles Corey demands "more weight!" before death | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Joe Keller sells defective airplane parts | All My Sons | Arthur Miller |
| Quentin debates whether or not to marry Helga | After the Fall | Arthur Miller |
| Memories of Maggie's Suicide linger in the protagonists brain | After the Fall (Protagonist is Quentin, Maggie was his wife) | Arthur Miller |
| Centers around Eddie Carbone's obsession with Catherine | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
| Marco stabs Eddie Carbone | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
| Eddie Carbone reports Randolpho and Marco to the immigration center | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
| One work is narrated by Alfieri | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
| Willy Loman commits suicide for life insurance | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Protagonist plants seeds in a garden at the end | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Protagonist can't get an Alaska job | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Bill Oliver's fountain pen is stolen | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Biff doesn't retake a math class to spite his father | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| A tense meeting occurs at Frank's Chop House | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Uncle Ben got rich from diamonds in the jungle | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| A pair of UVA shoes are burnt | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Howard Wagner fires the protagonist | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Protagonist is jealous of Charley and his son Bernard | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Sabina looks over the Antrobus family surviving an Ice Age | The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder |
| George becomes President of the Fraternal Order of Mammals | The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder |
| Moses, Homer, and other refugees flee an ice wall | The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder |
| Brother Juniper reviews the lives of victims of a disaster | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| Jaime, Esteban, Uncle Pio, Caroline Perichole, Pepita, and Marquesa de Mayor die | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| Clodia wrecks a festival | The Ides of March | Thornton Wilder |
| A car breaks down in Newport, Rhode Island | Theophilus North | Thornton Wilder |
| The Stage Manager lets Emily Webb revisit her 12th birthday | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Set in Grovers Corners | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?" | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| "Saints and Poets, maybe" | Our Town (in response to the realizing life question) | Thornton Wilder |
| Joe Crowell graduates from MIT and dies in WW1 | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Alchoholic Organist Simon Stimson commits suicide | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Love happens via ice cream sodas from Mr. Morgan's Drug Store | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Common singing of "Blessed be the Tie that Binds" | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Howie Newsome owns the horse Bessie | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Milkman Dead and Guitar fight over gold | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| Pecola Breedlove is raped by her father Cholly | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| Claudia Macteer narrates a novel about a protagonist who wants to be white | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| Guitar shoots Pilate instead of the protagonist | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| Opens with a story about Dick and Jane | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| Protagonist and Nel Wright drown Chicken Little | Sula | Toni Morrison |
| Rebecca Vaark falls ill with smallpox on a farm with her husband Jacob Vaark | A Mercy | Toni Morrison |
| Sethe kills her daughter to keep her from slavery | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Mr. Bodwin is attacked with an icepick after being mistaken for another character | Beloved (other character is Schoolteacher) | Toni Morrison |
| Characters escape Plantation Sweet Home | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Stamp Paid ferries the protagonist across the Ohio River | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Schoolteacher abuses Sixo | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Paul D. returns to 124 Bluestone Road | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Howard and Buglar run from the central location | Beloved (124 Bluestone Road) | Toni Morrison |
| Character believes his heart is a "tobacco tin" | Beloved (Paul D.) | Toni Morrison |
| "I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward Eternity" | Because I Could Not Stop for Death | Emily Dickinson |
| "Little bird That kept so many warm" | Hope is the thing with feathers | Emily Dickinson |
| "Inebriate of Air" | I taste a liquor never brewed | Emily Dickinson |
| "How dreary to be somebody" | I'm Nobody! Who are you? | Emily Dickinson |
| "I Guard my Master's Head" | My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun | Emily Dickinson |
| Rides in a carriage with Immortality and Death | Because I Could Not Stop for Death | Emily Dickinson |
| "A House that seemed A swelling in the ground | Because I Could Not Stop for Death | Emily Dickinson |
| "How Public, like a frog" | I'm Nobody! Who are you? | Emily Dickinson |
| This nickname wrote 3 letters to an unknown mad called "Master" | Belle of Amherst | Emily Dickinson |
| "a Plank in Reason, Broke" | I Felt a Funeral in my Brain | Emily Dickinson |
| "Blue, Uncertain Stumbling Buzz" | I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died | Emily Dickinson |
| "And then the windows failed And Then I could not see" | I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died | Emily Dickinson |
| "A Tighter Breathing and Zero at the Bone" | A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | Emily Dickinson |
| "Stillness in the Room was like the Stillness in the Air" | A Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died | Emily Dickinson |
| Contains "O Captain! My Captain!" and "Song of Myself" | Leaves of Grass (collection) | Walt Whitman |
| "Bleeding drops of red" | O Captain! My Captain! | Walt Whitman |
| "Fallen cold and dead" | O Captain! My Captain! | Walt Whitman |
| "Flood tide below me! I watch you face to face" | Crossing Brooklyn's Ferry | Walt Whitman |
| "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" | Song of Myself | Walt Whitman |
| "Look'd up in perfect silence at the western sky" | When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer | Walt Whitman |
| "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" | Song of Myself | Walt Whitman |
| Inspired by time nursing wounds in civil war | Drum Taps (collection) | Walt Whitman |
| "I am large, I contain multitudes" | Song of Myself | Walt Whitman |
| "The great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night" | When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | Walt Whitman |
| Includes "In Paths Untrodden" and implies his homosexuality | Calamus (collection) | Walt Whitman |
| "The sea whisper'd me" | Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | Walt Whitman |
| "The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them" | I Sing the Body Electric | Walt Whitman |
| "Every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you" | Song of Myself | Walt Whitman |
| "I too am untranslatable" | Song of Myself | Walt Whitman |
| Contrasts "death and human locomotives" with the title object | Sunflower Sutra | Allen Ginsberg |
| "How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime?" | Sunflower Sutra | Allen Ginsberg |
| Recounts the death of his mother, Naomi | Kaddish | Allen Ginsberg |
| Walt Whitman is in a grocery store | A Supermarket in California | Allen Ginsberg |
| "Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?" | A Supermarket in California | Allen Ginsberg |
| Set on a "Tincan Banana Dock" | Sunflower Sutrra | Allen Ginsberg |
| "I am an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas" | Wichita Vortex Sutra | Allen Ginsberg |
| "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked" | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Addressed to Carl Solomon | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Tells the addressee "I'm with you in Rockland" | Howl (addressee is Carl Solomon) | Allen Ginsberg |
| Has a footnote repeating the word "Holy!" | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Repeatedly references Moloch | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Refers to a figure as a "Sphinx of Cement and Aluminum" | Howl (figure is Moloch) | Allen Ginsberg |
| Describes "CCNY Lecturers on Dadaism" being pelted with potato salad | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Describes "Angelheaded Hipsters" | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Read at Six Gallery Readings | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Jake Barnes travels to Pamplona to see bullfighting | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| The matador Pedro Romero seduces Lady Brett Ashley, the protagonist's love interest | The Sun Also Rises (Protagonist is Jake Barnes) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Robert Cohn boxes Pedro Romero | The Sun Also Rises (boxing over Lady Brett Ashley, the love interest) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Harry dies of gangrene in the title location after fighting with his wife Helen | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Ernest Hemingway |
| Title character shoots a lion before being shot by his wife | The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber | Ernest Hemingway |
| Margot has an affair with Robert Wilson because her husband is too cowardly | The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber | Ernest Hemingway |
| Husband slits his throat after his wife gives birth via C-Section | Indian Camp | Ernest Hemingway |
| Nick Adams appears in several of his short stories | Like the Killers, Indian Camp, and the Big Two-Hearted River | Ernest Hemingway |
| Two Chicago Mobsters attempt to kill Ole Anderson | The Killers (The "killers" are Max and Al) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Max and Al tie up a recurring character to try and get information | The Killers (recurring character is Nick Adams) | Ernest Hemingway |
| "The American" convinces Jig to get an abortion | The Hills like White Elephants | Ernest Hemingway |
| Maria falls in love with Robert Jordan, a professor who dies in the Spanish Civil War | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Pilar leads the forces that the protagonist, who Pablo betrays, joins | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Harry Morgan is a bootlegger and smuggler | To Have and To Have Not | Ernest Hemingway |
| Anselmo is killed by shrapnel from a bridge the protagonist blows up | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Catherine Barkley dies in Childbirth | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| Frederic Henry deserts from the Italian Army in WWI with his lover | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| Miss Van Campen accuses the protagonist* of being an alcoholic due to his jaundice | A Farewell to Arms (*Frederic Henry) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Rinaldi plays matchmaker | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| Protagonist sees Aymo get shot and die in the rain | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| Santiago* kills a Mako Shark | The Old Man and the Sea (*is the Old Man) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Manolin calls the protagonist* Salao | The Old Man and the Sea (*Santiago) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Protagonist loves the "Great" (Joe) Dimaggio | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Protagonist dreams of lions on the beach | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Title character loves Minnehaha | The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Pearl-Feather is killed by the titular Ojibwa warrior | The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Title character is born after his mother is impregnated by the West Wind | The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Title character lives by the "Shore of Gitche Gumee" | The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "This is the forest primeval" | Evangeline | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Title character falls in love with Gabriel Lajeunesse | Evangeline | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Title character is Acadian during the Great Upheaval* | Evangeline (*The Expulsion of the Acadians) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Sea captain ties his daughter to the mast of a ship that crashes "on the reef of Norman's Woe" | The Wreck of the Hesperus | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Title character works "under a spreading chestnut tree" | The Village Blacksmith | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The "Blue-eyed Banditti" will be "put down into the dungeon in the round tower of my heart" | The Children's Hour | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| a "soul more white / never through the fire of martyrdom was led / to its repose" | Cross of Snow | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra" | The Children's Hour | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Why don't you speak for yourself John" | The Courtship of Miles Standish | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Love triangle is focused around Priscilla Mullins and John Alden | The Courtship of Miles Standish | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Cry of alarm" reached "Every Middlesex village and farm" | Paul Revere's Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "One of by land, and two if by sea" | Paul Revere's Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Listen my children, and you shall hear" | Paul Revere's Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Event occurs on "the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five" | Paul Revere's Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Title character carries her baby into the Louisiana Swamp after being forced out | Desiree's Baby | Kate Chopin |
| Armand Aubigny burnt letters revealing his mix-race ancestry after kickout out his wife | Desiree's Baby | Kate Chopin |
| Title character gives birth to a baby with a darker skin color than her or her husband | Desiree's Baby | Kate Chopin |
| Louise Mallard dies of shock after discovering her husband isn't dead | The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin |
| Brently didn't die in a train accident | The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin |
| Edna Pontellier drowns in the Gulf of Mexico | The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| "Free! Body and Soul Free!" | The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin |
| Alcee Arobin falls in love with the protagonist* | The Awakening (*Edna Pontellier) | Kate Chopin |
| Protagonist falls in love with Robert Lebrun | The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| Therese Lafirme convinces David Hosmer to remarry Fanny | At Fault | Kate Chopin |
| Bibi and Bobinot go away for a time | The Storm | Kate Chopin |
| Alcee and Calixta have an affair after a lightning strike in the title event | The Storm | Kate Chopin |
| A French parrot mocks Leonce, the protagonist's husband | The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| Mademoiselle Reisz plays the piano beautifully | The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| Protagonist is contrased with Adele Ratignolle | The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| Mrs. Sommers spends her money on the title objects | A Pair of Silk Stockings | Kate Chopin |
| Protagonist wishes the cable car trip would last forever | A Pair of Silk Stockings | Kate Chopin |
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