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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...

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

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

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

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...

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

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

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

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...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...

This paper examines how Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet compare and critique 'The Second Coming' of W.B. Yeats and 'A Good Man is Har...

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

lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...

of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...

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

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

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

about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...

fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...

in Milledgeville, OConnor attended Georgia State College for Women and eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Literatu...

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

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

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