YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Bear by William Faulkner
Essays 31 - 60
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
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...
and simplistic style she employs. "The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by...
black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...
This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...
spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...
In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...
all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...
story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...
town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...
with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...
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...
In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....
that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...
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...
of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...
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...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...