YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Dry September by William Faulkner
Essays 31 - 60
This paper discusses the character of Emily in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.' This five page paper has no outside referen...
lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...
success is also her own. Jacks mother dotes on him, and in turn, she becomes the center of his universe. However, Jacks mother a...
5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...
In five pages family dysfunction and its disintegration as represented in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and t...
In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...
In five pages this paper examines the impact of Addie's death at the beginning of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to present the...
In twenty pages twentieth century family dysfunction is considered in a comparative analysis of its portrayal in the characterizat...
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...
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...
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...
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...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...
(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...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
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...
fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...
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...
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...
It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...
a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...
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...
coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...
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 ...
had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...