YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Reading of Faulkners A Rose for Emily
Essays 211 - 240
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...
In all honesty it is not really a poem about abuse but a poem about life and the love that exists between the narrator and the fat...
necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...
fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...
testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...
spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...
strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...
below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...
there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...
story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...
of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...
South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...
story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...
If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...
of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...
that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...
child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...
coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...
the wealth that lingers in the background. Yet, this rags to riches story includes murder and mayhem and the fact that Sutpen earn...
had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...
about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...
assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...
is characterized by Dostoevsky as something of a scoundrel, someone who manipulates emotion, and who is primarily concerned with g...