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Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
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...
black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...
If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...
This paper examines the important role the past plays in Absalom, Absalom! a 1936 novel by William Faulkner in six pages. There a...
to acquire land that turns a profit from their constant toil. "...The land is made habitable and profitable for him by the black ...
This paper analyzes how symbols and illusions are used in 'The Bear,' a short story by William Faulkner, in five pages. Two sourc...
This paper examines how the Bildungsroman or coming of age technique is employed by William Faulkner in the portrayal of his 11 ye...
The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...
In a paper consisting of seven and a half pages the ways in which the transition from Old to New South are conveyed by William Fau...
he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...
This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...
or not he should warn the de Spains illustrate the strength of family loyalty or as Faulkner calls it "the old fierce pull of bloo...
and simplistic style she employs. "The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by...
were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
narrator, but fifteen of them, most of whom were the lowliest class of Yoknapatawpha County farmers, of the same caliber as the mi...
Character strengths and weaknesses and their family relationships are examined in this analysis of As I Lay Dying by William Faulk...
The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...
have little respect for each other as people. This family, in the end, only gives a surface appearance of going beyond their indiv...
In six pages this paper examines the opposing critical perspectives of Adams and Eldridge on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. F...
lends variety to a work that otherwise might become monotonous. But in short stories, only one point of view is generally used, a...