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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...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

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

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...

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

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

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

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...

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

In five pages this paper examines racial prejudice and gender issues within the context of William Faulkner's story. There is one...

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...

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

This essay looks at "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and presents the argument that this story presents a critique of Southe...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...