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In all honesty it is not really a poem about abuse but a poem about life and the love that exists between the narrator and the fat...

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...

strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...

story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...

If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...

fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

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...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...