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and "marrying well". In the twentieth century, however, the Compsons breed a retarded child; two of the siblings have an incestuou...

In eleven pages this paper presents a thematic comparison of the novels by Faulkner and Hawthorne and the common threads of family...

Character strengths and weaknesses and their family relationships are examined in this analysis of As I Lay Dying by William Faulk...

The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...

lends variety to a work that otherwise might become monotonous. But in short stories, only one point of view is generally used, a...

In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...

In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...

In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...

In six pages this paper examines America's declining morality and also considers social corruption and the breakdown of the family...

that she did not have the wherewithal to match the experience of the opposing gender. It can be argued that the very first words ...

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

In a paper consisting of seven and a half pages the ways in which the transition from Old to New South are conveyed by William Fau...

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

be buried in her familys plot (Lilburn). Its summer, its hot, the journey takes nine days - that in itself is macabre enough, but...

instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

seething, boiling and discontent as the odd angled buildings and broken windows. It can be the quiet solitude of a rustic church, ...

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...