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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...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

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

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...

In five pages this paper examines the themes featured in William Faulkner's short stories 'Dry September,' 'The Bear,' and 'A Rose...

This paper discusses the character of Emily in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.' This five page paper has no outside referen...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

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