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

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

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

(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...

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...

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...

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

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...

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

In six pages this paper examines the opposing critical perspectives of Adams and Eldridge on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. F...

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

In seven pages this paper examines the history of the Old South as it reveals intself in William Faulkner's short story. Four oth...

In five pages this paper examines racial prejudice and gender issues within the context of William Faulkner's story. There is one...

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

In five pages this paper examines the impact of Addie's death at the beginning of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to present the...

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