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In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

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

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

a lady....

father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...

to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...

also clear that he has suffered at the hands of the townspeople. Mostly, Hightower wants to be left alone and suffer in his emotio...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...

and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...

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

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...