YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :William Faulkners Light in August
Essays 241 - 270
chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...
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...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...
as a proper Southern lady, with the pretention of adhering to a moral code above that of the common person, but in reality, she fo...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...
pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...
about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...
South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...
In all honesty it is not really a poem about abuse but a poem about life and the love that exists between the narrator and the fat...
expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...
late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...
below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...
strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...
of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...
story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...
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...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
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...
fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
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...
being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
the student rewrites this research for inclusion in his or her own paper, the student can , of course, reorganize the material in ...