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

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

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

In five pages this paper examines racial prejudice and gender issues within the context of William Faulkner's story. There is one...

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...

that she did not have the wherewithal to match the experience of the opposing gender. It can be argued that the very first words ...

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...

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...

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...

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the black family in a consideration of community identity of the individual, gend...

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

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spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...