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

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 ...

be taken by another and gets married. Yet, it is suggested that she marries more for money than love and this brings up a curious...

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

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...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...

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

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

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

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

themes, and arguments Emily Lynn Osborns Our New Husbands Are Here investigates the sociology of households in the Milo River Val...

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...

for its wealth of atmospheric detail and rich symbolism. This makes them attractive to literary critics because there is a great d...

cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...

first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...

on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...

Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...

his force" (Behn 13-14). In her case she is a virgin who has finally, it seems, given in to the man Lisander, and is ready to give...

Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...

located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...

Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...