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utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...
Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...
fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
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...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...
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...
townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...
common to the Old South. And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly ...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...
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 ...
were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of insanity is depicted within the characterization of Emily and her mental illness. ...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...