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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...

nor hard-chargers like Charlotte Rittenmeyer in ""The Wild Palms" seem to win Faulkners full approval, though they all, like all h...

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...

strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...

story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...

expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...

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

the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...

assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...

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

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...

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...

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...

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...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

In five pages the relationship between Addie and her children before and after her passing is considered in terms of such themes a...

only to make the reader see. A novelist of course is supposed to show and not tell. Through showing the reader the story, a moral ...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

the student rewrites this research for inclusion in his or her own paper, the student can , of course, reorganize the material in ...