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In five pages this paper examines decay and death in a thematic analysis of this famous short story by William Faulkner particular...

In five pages this paper examines the conflict between protagonist Emily Grierson and her hometown in an analysis of this short st...

The supposed madness of the titled protagonist is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and evaluates whether or not she...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

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

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

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

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

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...

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...

What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...

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...

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...

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

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

and every person. To say that women had to fight for their existence within a patriarchal world would be a gross understate...

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

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

Mexican Americans living in various states, such as California and Texas, that have likely been living in that state since it beca...