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no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

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...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

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

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...

In nine pages this essay discusses the consequences of time on the Compsons featured in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner...

In five pages this paper examines the conflict between protagonist Emily Grierson and her hometown in an analysis of this short st...

of her life. One of the children asks her whats wrong: " I aint nothing but a nigger, Nancy said. It aint none of my fault " ("Tha...

In five pages this paper discusses the repetitive themes in this trio of short stories by William Faulkner. Seven sources are cit...

In eight pages this paper discusses how Southern life, history and geography are depicted in the short stories 'A Rose for Emily,'...

and "marrying well". In the twentieth century, however, the Compsons breed a retarded child; two of the siblings have an incestuou...

This paper examines the important role the past plays in Absalom, Absalom! a 1936 novel by William Faulkner in six pages. There a...

to acquire land that turns a profit from their constant toil. "...The land is made habitable and profitable for him by the black ...

This paper analyzes how symbols and illusions are used in 'The Bear,' a short story by William Faulkner, in five pages. Two sourc...