YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Barn Burning by William Faulkner
Essays 181 - 210
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...
who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...
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 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...
indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...
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 ...
In five pages the fictional representations of women featured in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dying by Will...
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 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...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
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...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
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...