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- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

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...

of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

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...

means than prose, being as diverse a means of communication as any medium. Identifying the inherent problems associated with comp...

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...

burned in addition to the health havoc it wreaked on the population of South East Asia (Linden, 1998). At the height of the fires,...

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

the contest because she bribed Paris by offering him Helen of Troy, the fairest of mortal women, which is the basis for the confli...

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

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...

with an understanding of how to deal with five in the environment, and their ability to think quickly and react in the appropriate...

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

In 2006, Lane fired an employee because she never came to work and refused to do so. She sued. Lane was fired and filed a lawsuit....

This essay looks at "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and presents the argument that this story presents a critique of Southe...

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...