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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...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

a regular and habitual course and show regular and habitual contrasts-all these use up, so to speak, less consciousness than does ...

death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...

of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...

(Chopin Chapter VII). She then meets Robert and her life takes a powerful turn. Not only does she engage in a very passionate a...

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...

nor hard-chargers like Charlotte Rittenmeyer in ""The Wild Palms" seem to win Faulkners full approval, though they all, like all h...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

new life are fearful of such change, choosing to live the life they are accustomed to instead. Eveline is a woman who has dreams a...

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

In twenty pages twentieth century family dysfunction is considered in a comparative analysis of its portrayal in the characterizat...

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

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...

you keep me around." Okay, so Im a pushover where hes concerned, but I have to say in my defense that I still wasnt sold on the w...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

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

a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...

the individuals lot in life. On their journey there are numerous arguments for the adoption for rejection of the different...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...