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secrets are inferred. That her father suppressed her sexuality and thwarted her womans life is clearly stated. The town assumes t...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
In three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...
In five pages this paper examines decay and death in a thematic analysis of this famous short story by William Faulkner particular...
This paper compares the literary criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner by Ray B. West Jr. in 'Atmosphere and Theme i...
In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...
This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...
In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...
In five pages this paper discusses the repetitive themes in this trio of short stories by William Faulkner. Seven sources are cit...
he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...
were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...
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...
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...
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 ...
The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...
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....