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as a proper Southern lady, with the pretention of adhering to a moral code above that of the common person, but in reality, she fo...

This book review is on "The Forensic Casebook" by N.E. Genge. The writer first summarizes the book's contents and then discusses i...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

This book review pertains to Laurie Green's "Let's Do Theology." The author's main argument is described, and a summation of the b...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...

the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...

in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...

assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

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...

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...

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 ...

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...

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...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...