YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Barn Burning by William Faulkner
Essays 151 - 180
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...
In a paper consisting of seven and a half pages the ways in which the transition from Old to New South are conveyed by William Fau...
Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...
In six pages this paper examines America's declining morality and also considers social corruption and the breakdown of the family...
to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...
he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...
In 6 pages this paper discusses human and cosmic justice within the context of this novel by William Faulkner and also considers h...
In five pages the fictional representations of women featured in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dying by Will...
indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...
In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...
also clear that he has suffered at the hands of the townspeople. Mostly, Hightower wants to be left alone and suffer in his emotio...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...