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

had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...

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...

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

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...

(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...

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

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

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

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

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...

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...

In five pages the viewpoint's functions in these respective stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources liste...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

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

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...