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she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

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...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

The supposed madness of the titled protagonist is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and evaluates whether or not she...

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

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

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

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...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

that she did not have the wherewithal to match the experience of the opposing gender. It can be argued that the very first words ...

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

be an enduringly popular play. Not as sensational as A Streetcar Named Desire, it offers just as bleak a portrait of a family stru...

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

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

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...