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judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

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...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

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...

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...

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...

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

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...

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...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

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...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

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

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

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

In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...

An analysis consisting of five pages compares the ways in which three protagonists attempt to improve their lives. The works exam...

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