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a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...

of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...

lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...

and perverts every aspect of their lives. Unlike the Hubbards, Reginas husband, Horace Giddens, is a man of principle. He has jus...

Sula because she has divorced herself so completely from her own emotions. By the end of the novel, both characters come to the re...

of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...

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

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

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

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...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

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...

(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...

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

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...

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

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...

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

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...