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nor hard-chargers like Charlotte Rittenmeyer in ""The Wild Palms" seem to win Faulkners full approval, though they all, like all h...

a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...

black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...

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...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

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

fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

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...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

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

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" ...

by the project, use of department that are using those resources. In the case of all costs being allocated to a single project or ...

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...

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...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

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...

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

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...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

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...

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

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

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...