YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Symbolism in The Great Gatsby by Faulkner
Essays 301 - 330
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 five pages this paper examines the strong female characterizations of Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley, Cather's Antonia Shimerda,...
This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...
now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...
and a man who, as mentioned never had to work for a living. In these two so far we see many differences, the primary one being ...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
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 ...
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...
own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...
that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...
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...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...
all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...
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...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
55). The appeal of this dream attracts the interest of both Crooks and Candy, who would also like to be part of the dream, as it...
extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...
aching muscles, "Nick felt happy," as he has "left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs" (Hemi...
the wealth that lingers in the background. Yet, this rags to riches story includes murder and mayhem and the fact that Sutpen earn...
Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...
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 ...
In five pages these two stories are compared in terms of their presentations of class consciousness where distinctions are clearly...