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

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

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

the author and his works this short story holds a deeper and more historical position. In relationship to the story itself, anot...

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

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

(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...

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...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...