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did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

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...

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

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

(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...

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...

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...

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

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

In three pages this essay compares O'Connor's 'Good Country People' with Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' in terms of their usage of ...

a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....

In five pages the viewpoint's functions in these respective stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources liste...

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

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

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...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

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...

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

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

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...