YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Society and the Individual in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Essays 61 - 90
(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...
that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...
literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...
great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...
deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...
had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...
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 ...
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...
The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...
In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...
secrets are inferred. That her father suppressed her sexuality and thwarted her womans life is clearly stated. The town assumes t...
In six pages this paper examines the opposing critical perspectives of Adams and Eldridge on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. F...
In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...
In five pages this paper examines the impact of Addie's death at the beginning of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to present the...
In seven pages this paper examines the history of the Old South as it reveals intself in William Faulkner's short story. Four oth...
In five pages this paper examines racial prejudice and gender issues within the context of William Faulkner's story. There is one...
An analysis consisting of five pages compares the ways in which three protagonists attempt to improve their lives. The works exam...
This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...
This paper discusses the character of Emily in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.' This five page paper has no outside referen...
In five pages this paper examines how William Faulkner's character Col. John Sartoris is presented somewhat differently in an anal...
oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
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...
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...
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...