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

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...

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

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

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

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...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

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...

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

In six pages this paper examines how atmosphere, symbolism, incident, character, and theme are influenced by alienation and loneli...

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...

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

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...

In five pages family dysfunction and its disintegration as represented in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and t...