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

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

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...

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...

(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...

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

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...

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...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

not romantically involved. Jack is imitating a robot: his arms are bent at the elbows, hes bent at the waist and moving very stiff...

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

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...

In five pages this paper examines the innovative camera techniques featured in the Robin Williams' film What Dreams May Come. Fou...

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...

by reversing the process. As it turned out Duhamel was on the right track to recording sound. Although he was unsuccessful...

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...