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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

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...

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

(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...

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...

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...

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

In three pages this essay compares O'Connor's 'Good Country People' with Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' in terms of their usage of ...

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

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

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

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

her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

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

and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...

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

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

In nine pages this paper examines the necessary logical sequence that evolves in the tragedies of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms a...