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This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...

a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...

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...

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

(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...

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

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

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...

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

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 ...

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

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...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

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

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

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...

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

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...

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

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

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...

In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...

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

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...