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

a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...

This paper discusses the character of Emily in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.' This five page paper has no outside referen...

In three pages this essay compares O'Connor's 'Good Country People' with Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' in terms of their usage of ...

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...

lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...

heritage that he ignored his wifes infidelity and she ultimately committed suicide. In addition, there is Faulkners Lena Grove, t...

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

In five pages this paper examines the impact of Addie's death at the beginning of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to present the...

In five pages this paper examines the strong female characterizations of Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley, Cather's Antonia Shimerda,...

This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...

In eleven pages this report considers Ellison's Invisible Man, Faulkner's Light in August, and Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's ...

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...

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

spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

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...

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

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

be defined only in relation to the men in their lives, not as themselves. That is, they are somebodys wife and somebodys mother, n...

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

in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...

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...