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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 ...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

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...

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...

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

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...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

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...

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and wome...

to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...