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none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...

a good daughter, nothing seems to change and life seems without hope." This person would likely not understand that the sufferi...

a very good life with his mother but then his mother marries and he is sent away to a place called Salem House. It is London board...

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

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

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

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

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

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

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

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

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

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

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...

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...