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first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

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

In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...

In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

In five pages this paper examines the themes featured in William Faulkner's short stories 'Dry September,' 'The Bear,' and 'A Rose...

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

This short story by Toni Cade Bambara is examined in an analysis of identity and trust issues in a paper consisting of five pages....

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

of segregation forced me to develop an inner strength that has served me well...It was a profoundly significant thing in my life, ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

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...

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

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 ...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...