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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 the moral value and depiction of women in William Faulkner's Sanctuary, The Unvanquished, As I L...

In 3 pages theme, tone, and symbolism are analyzed within the context of Katherine Mansfield's short story 'Miss Brill.' There ar...

two women that reveals a great deal about their lives while simultaneously showing the effect of their fathers tyranny through the...

In six pages this essay presents a modernist interpretation of this short story by Katherine Mansfield. Three sources are cited i...

In six pages this research paper examines how within 'Bliss,' a short story by Katherine Mansfield, the author masterfully manipul...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

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

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

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

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

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