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This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

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

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

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

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

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

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...

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...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

The supposed madness of the titled protagonist is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and evaluates whether or not she...

In seven pages this paper examines the history of the Old South as it reveals intself in William Faulkner's short story. Four oth...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of insanity is depicted within the characterization of Emily and her mental illness. ...

In five pages this paper examines decay and death in a thematic analysis of this famous short story by William Faulkner particular...

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

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

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

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...

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

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

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...

knowledge that Desiree has gone to her death, even though Arnaud will have to cope with a revelation that shakes the foundations o...

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

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

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...