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Essays 241 - 270
In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...
In five pages a gender role perspective is presented in an examination of Dry September through an application of deductive and in...
In five pages the character of Minnie is evaluated in terms of her lying tendencies from the beginning and the racism theme is als...
In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...
In five pages Col. John Sartoris's role in the story is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
The supposed madness of the titled protagonist is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and evaluates whether or not she...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
This 5 page essay explores Faulkner's and Wright's choices of characters and their common burden of intimidation. Interrelationsh...
In five pages the relationship between Addie and her children before and after her passing is considered in terms of such themes a...
nor hard-chargers like Charlotte Rittenmeyer in ""The Wild Palms" seem to win Faulkners full approval, though they all, like all h...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
as a proper Southern lady, with the pretention of adhering to a moral code above that of the common person, but in reality, she fo...
assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...
pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...
expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...
late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...
about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...
of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...
the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...
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...
fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...
South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...
story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...
so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...