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In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...

In five pages this paper discusses Shirley Jackson's life, writings, evil as a popular theme, and her most famous short story 'The...

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...

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 ...

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

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

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...

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

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

(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...

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...

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...

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

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

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...

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

In five pages this paper discusses how women are subjected to oppression by men in these 2 short stories by Shirley Jackson. Seve...

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...

the reader with picture-perfect images. As one author notes, in regards to this story, "Through joyous rituals, LeGuin outlines pa...

In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

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...