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

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

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

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

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...

simply slaves. They were not simply second rate human beings but have constantly played a very vital role in the history of the na...

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

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and wome...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

of those in relation to us..." (The Religious Affiliation of Playwright Tennessee Williams). In looking at this particular...

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...

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

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

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

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

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

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

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

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...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

educated, for most people are in the future, and they just live a life that is filled with criminal activity. It is the norm and t...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...