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In five pages this paper examines the themes featured in William Faulkner's short stories 'Dry September,' 'The Bear,' and 'A Rose...

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

a lady....

In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...

he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...

and every person. To say that women had to fight for their existence within a patriarchal world would be a gross understate...

lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...

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 ...

In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...

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...

This paper discusses the character of Emily in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.' This five page paper has no outside referen...

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...

(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...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

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

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

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...

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

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...

is the economic reality of a company. This leads to a lack of transparency and deception in the structuring of financial transact...

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

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

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

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 died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...