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secrets are inferred. That her father suppressed her sexuality and thwarted her womans life is clearly stated. The town assumes t...

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

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

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

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

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

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

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

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

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

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...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

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

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 three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...

In five pages this paper examines decay and death in a thematic analysis of this famous short story by William Faulkner particular...

This paper compares the literary criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner by Ray B. West Jr. in 'Atmosphere and Theme i...

In five pages this paper discusses the repetitive themes in this trio of short stories by William Faulkner. Seven sources are cit...

In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...

In five pages the viewpoint's functions in these respective stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources liste...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...