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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...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

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

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...

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

so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

or not he should warn the de Spains illustrate the strength of family loyalty or as Faulkner calls it "the old fierce pull of bloo...

This paper offers an explication of the story in three pages and includes setting, tone, style, characters, summary, narrator, the...

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

of her life. One of the children asks her whats wrong: " I aint nothing but a nigger, Nancy said. It aint none of my fault " ("Tha...

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 ...

lends variety to a work that otherwise might become monotonous. But in short stories, only one point of view is generally used, a...

In five pages these two stories are compared in terms of their presentations of class consciousness where distinctions are clearly...

The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...

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

all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...

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

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...

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

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...

(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...

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...

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

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...

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