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

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

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

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...

in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...

the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...

as a proper Southern lady, with the pretention of adhering to a moral code above that of the common person, but in reality, she fo...

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...

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...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...

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

(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...

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

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...

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 ...

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

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

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...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...

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 ...