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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...

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

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...

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...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

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

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

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

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...

In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...

In five pages this paper examines how original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

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 ...

with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

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

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...