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In five pages this paper examines the themes featured in William Faulkner's short stories 'Dry September,' 'The Bear,' and 'A Rose...
great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...
had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...
to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...
pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...
late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...
This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...
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...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
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 ...
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...
with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...
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...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
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...
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...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...