YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Social Evolution in the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner
Essays 271 - 300
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
This essay looks at "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and presents the argument that this story presents a critique of Southe...
This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...
utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...
Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...
historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...
In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...
also clear that he has suffered at the hands of the townspeople. Mostly, Hightower wants to be left alone and suffer in his emotio...
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...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...