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no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

the author and his works this short story holds a deeper and more historical position. In relationship to the story itself, anot...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

This paper discusses the character of Emily in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.' This five page paper has no outside referen...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...