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death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...

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...

to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...

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...

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

a lady....

This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

also clear that he has suffered at the hands of the townspeople. Mostly, Hightower wants to be left alone and suffer in his emotio...

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

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

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...

- 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...

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

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...

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

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...