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The supposed madness of the titled protagonist is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and evaluates whether or not she...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

In five pages this paper examines the impact of Addie's death at the beginning of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to present the...

there is an appearance of such. While Lomans life is all about lies and innuendo, Snopess emotions are simply lacking. He is just ...

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...