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room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

loves to write, and obviously sneaks off to do because we are reading about it. Writing is her passion and while it is seen as an ...

research paper on Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper". I have chosen this story primarily because of its aesthetic interest to me, in t...

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

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

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

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...

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

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

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

in charge of the farm by her father when he dies. The farm is not left to her brothers or to Alexandrias mother but to her. The st...

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...

(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...

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

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

In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

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

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...