YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Background and the Stories of William Faulkner
Essays 331 - 360
only to make the reader see. A novelist of course is supposed to show and not tell. Through showing the reader the story, a moral ...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
In five pages the relationship between Addie and her children before and after her passing is considered in terms of such themes a...
the student rewrites this research for inclusion in his or her own paper, the student can , of course, reorganize the material in ...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...
struggle to find order among chaos (Monarch Notes PG). There was a definite method to the madness of Faulkners writing, and its n...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of insanity is depicted within the characterization of Emily and her mental illness. ...
In six pages this paper analyzes the Southern family decline as represented by the Compson clan in The Sound and the Fury and also...
In eleven pages this paper presents a thematic comparison of the novels by Faulkner and Hawthorne and the common threads of family...
have little respect for each other as people. This family, in the end, only gives a surface appearance of going beyond their indiv...
from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...
fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...
the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...
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...
the wealth that lingers in the background. Yet, this rags to riches story includes murder and mayhem and the fact that Sutpen earn...
Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...
extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...