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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....

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

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...

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

woman who has given her life to being a wife and a mother and she is simply trying to understand why her son expects to live his l...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

principal rationalization behind the lottery when he says, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" (Jackson). Warner disparages thos...

This essay describes "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson in regards to the positive and negative aspects of tradition. Three pages in...

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

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...