YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Dry September by William Faulkner
Essays 121 - 150
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...
This essay looks at "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and presents the argument that this story presents a critique of Southe...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...
In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...
also clear that he has suffered at the hands of the townspeople. Mostly, Hightower wants to be left alone and suffer in his emotio...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...