YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories of William Faulkner and Southern Life
Essays 61 - 90
In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...
(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
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...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
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...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
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...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...
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...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...
that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...
terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
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 paper examines racial prejudice and gender issues within the context of William Faulkner's story. There is one...
In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...
This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...
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...
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...
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 ...