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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

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 ...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

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...

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...

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

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

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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