YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories by William Faulkner Compared
Essays 421 - 450
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...
In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...
In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...
sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...
who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
a lady....
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...
Character strengths and weaknesses and their family relationships are examined in this analysis of As I Lay Dying by William Faulk...
The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...
This paper examines the important role the past plays in Absalom, Absalom! a 1936 novel by William Faulkner in six pages. There a...
to acquire land that turns a profit from their constant toil. "...The land is made habitable and profitable for him by the black ...
In nine pages this essay discusses the consequences of time on the Compsons featured in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner...
This paper examines how the Bildungsroman or coming of age technique is employed by William Faulkner in the portrayal of his 11 ye...
In five pages this paper discusses how the past is revived in 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in 'A Rose for Emily'...
and "marrying well". In the twentieth century, however, the Compsons breed a retarded child; two of the siblings have an incestuou...
- 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...