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

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

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

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...

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

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

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

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...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

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...

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

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

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 ...

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...

In five pages the viewpoint's functions in these respective stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources liste...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

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...

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

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...

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

In eight pages this paper discusses how Southern life, history and geography are depicted in the short stories 'A Rose for Emily,'...

In three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...