YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Barn Burning by William Faulkner
Essays 511 - 540
Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...
her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...
at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...
Mississippi and later St. Louis Williams was teased about his deep southern accent and changed his name to Tennessee. Because of f...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....
decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...
the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...
to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...
around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...
his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...
Brian Williams, NBC news anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, was one of the most trusted journalists in mass media. Ev...
setting up the ending in this way through foreshadowing, it would seem to "come out of nowhere", and would be a jarring fit with t...
and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...
This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...
be buried in her familys plot (Lilburn). Its summer, its hot, the journey takes nine days - that in itself is macabre enough, but...
them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine...
seething, boiling and discontent as the odd angled buildings and broken windows. It can be the quiet solitude of a rustic church, ...
instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...
they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
Throughout the story, the reader is forced to determine just which gender Emily actually represents. Additionally, it becomes cle...
Readings are taken from three works, The Sound and the Fury, The House of the Seven Gables and A Farewell to Arms, in this paper w...
discuss the men. In the article concerning Hemingway the author notes that "Description so vivid that it enables one to be there i...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
perspective on the political realities of the era, reviewing the political climate and history of the South. He states that this h...