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limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

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...

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

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

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

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...

(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...

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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