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

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

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

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

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...

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

In five pages this paper examines the themes featured in William Faulkner's short stories 'Dry September,' 'The Bear,' and 'A Rose...

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...

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

literature and his father had an impressive library (Ambrose Bierce, 2002). Bierces family was considered to be "sternly religiou...

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

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...

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...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

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

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

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...

In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...

In five pages the viewpoint's functions in these respective stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources liste...

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

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 ...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...