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In five pages family dysfunction and its disintegration as represented in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and t...

In five pages this paper examines racial prejudice and gender issues within the context of William Faulkner's story. There is one...

In seven pages this paper examines the history of the Old South as it reveals intself in William Faulkner's short story. Four oth...

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

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...

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

In all honesty it is not really a poem about abuse but a poem about life and the love that exists between the narrator and the fat...

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

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...

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

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

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

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

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

about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...

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...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...

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...