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which was published in 1960, Ousmane examines the topics of race and class in two distinctly political ways. One approach that he ...

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

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

Character strengths and weaknesses and their family relationships are examined in this analysis of As I Lay Dying by William Faulk...

The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...

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

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

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...

he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...

In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

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

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...

"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

often in possession of the same last word. For example, the fourth stanza ends with "This it is, and nothing more" and then the fi...

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...

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

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...

that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...

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

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...

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