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which the individual is supposed to pass, the doctors are usually good at predicting whether a dying person has a few days or a fe...

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

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...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

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

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

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 ...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

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 ...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

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...

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

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

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who are directly involved live and deal with life. This is something that cannot be accurately assessed through numbers, or specif...

and Akhenaton died.3 (It would have been difficult for him to become king before they died, wouldnt it?) In addition, seals found ...

learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...

In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...