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reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

Jon Williams' story 'Taking Care' is analyzed in terms of the story itself as well as the character development in five pages. Th...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

In three pages this essay compares O'Connor's 'Good Country People' with Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' in terms of their usage of ...

of her life. One of the children asks her whats wrong: " I aint nothing but a nigger, Nancy said. It aint none of my fault " ("Tha...

chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

the stop by a river and it seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; L...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

In nine pages this paper examines the necessary logical sequence that evolves in the tragedies of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms a...

In eleven pages the similarities and differences that exist among the male protagonists and their parentages in these works are co...

The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

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

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

there is an appearance of such. While Lomans life is all about lies and innuendo, Snopess emotions are simply lacking. He is just ...

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

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

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 ...

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

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...

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

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 ...

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