"a white heron" and "the best in the jungle", compare and contrast

'A White Heron and 'The Beast in the Jungle'' A Comparison and Contrast Essay         Comparing and contrasting Jewett's Sylvy in 'A White Heron' with May Bartram of James's 'The Beast in the Jungle' proves to be an interesting task. How can two such unlike characters be so alike. Only on close examination do these common threads appear.         In the story 'A White Heron,' Sylvy is presented as a young, pre-adolescent girl, living in the …showed first 75 words of 771 total…

…showed last 75 words of 771 total…perhaps had the extraordinary ability to ignore her extra sense in hopes that endurance, tolerance, and perseverance would pay off. May accepted her bribe and lived on the mere crumbs John Marcher would throw her from time to time without ever experiencing the satisfaction from taking a stand or making a decision. Her life seemed to ramble on waiting for her love to came to his senses. Anticlimactically it rambled on until it rambled out.