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her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

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 ...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...

What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

In six pages this paper examines America's declining morality and also considers social corruption and the breakdown of the family...

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

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

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...

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...

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 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'...

In nine pages this essay discusses the consequences of time on the Compsons featured in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner...

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

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...