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and "marrying well". In the twentieth century, however, the Compsons breed a retarded child; two of the siblings have an incestuou...

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...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In six pages this paper examines America's declining morality and also considers social corruption and the breakdown of the family...

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

In a paper consisting of seven and a half pages the ways in which the transition from Old to New South are conveyed by William Fau...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...

lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...

In 6 pages this paper discusses human and cosmic justice within the context of this novel by William Faulkner and also considers h...

In five pages the fictional representations of women featured in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dying by Will...

this, Samsas preeminent concern is how he will explain this difficult matter to his boss, if he is in fact even able to get to wor...

contrast in each of these dualistic aspects of the setting reflects the dichotomous void that exists between the two central chara...

fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...