YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Dry September by William Faulkner
Essays 181 - 210
or not he should warn the de Spains illustrate the strength of family loyalty or as Faulkner calls it "the old fierce pull of bloo...
In six pages this paper examines America's declining morality and also considers social corruption and the breakdown of the family...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...
Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...
almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...
This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
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...
as a proper Southern lady, with the pretention of adhering to a moral code above that of the common person, but in reality, she fo...
about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...
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...
assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...
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...
below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...
strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...
so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...
of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...
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...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...
like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...
chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...
black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...