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

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...

far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

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

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

finished creating mayhem yet. Mortgage-backed securities, backed by subprime mortgages, are likely to continue falling in value as...

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...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

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

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

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

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

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

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...

stables, no longer a real member of the family, Catherine still roamed the hills with him, being his companion, and he really her ...

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

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

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...

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

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

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

one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...

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

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...

attitudes that he has embraced have robbed his life of meaning and value. The ghosts remind him of his past and the choices that h...

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...

Culturally-relevant literature generally reflects the foundations of the culture in which it was developed, often creating a view ...