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specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...

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...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

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

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

years of heartache and turmoil. With Catherine the daughter of a proud land owner and Heathcliff a rugged but humble lad brought ...

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Aunt Obasan and Aunt Emily as featured in Japanese Canadian author Joy K...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

common to the Old South. And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly ...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

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 ...

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

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...

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

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...