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Essays 511 - 540
In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...
In nine pages this essay discusses the consequences of time on the Compsons featured in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner...
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...
This paper examines how the Bildungsroman or coming of age technique is employed by William Faulkner in the portrayal of his 11 ye...
In five pages this paper discusses how the past is revived in 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in 'A Rose for Emily'...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...
In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...
to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...