YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Loneliness Faulkner and Hemingway
Essays 61 - 90
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...
contrast in each of these dualistic aspects of the setting reflects the dichotomous void that exists between the two central chara...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
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...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...
assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...
as a proper Southern lady, with the pretention of adhering to a moral code above that of the common person, but in reality, she fo...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" and O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story". Various ...
nor hard-chargers like Charlotte Rittenmeyer in ""The Wild Palms" seem to win Faulkners full approval, though they all, like all h...
This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...
In eight pages this paper examines how the outdoors are represented in Hemingway's writings and the conflict between man and natur...
in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I. Henry meets and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Soon af...
of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as something of a metaphor for what is generally referred to as the "war between the...
woman who is significant, but rather how she makes the male character feel. This is particularly true of young women, who almost f...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
what dull or even dim-witted character," as from the start, he is passive and seemingly uncaring (Griem 95). It is clear that he c...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
their lives and their emotions. These men did not need a woman to encourage them or to make them feel like they were men. Inter...
those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...
fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...
like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...
their lives and their emotions. However, she did have control over Jake, Robert, and Mike because they were lost, part of that los...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...
he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....
hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...