YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Characterization of Abner Snopes and Symbolism in Barn Burning by William Faulkner
Essays 271 - 300
he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...
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...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...
indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...
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...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...
who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...
In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...