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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...

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

In eight pages this paper discusses changes in feudalism regarding from the Norman Conquest and William I's reign. There are 5 so...

In seven pages this paper examines the history of the Old South as it reveals intself in William Faulkner's short story. Four oth...

In five pages this paper examines racial prejudice and gender issues within the context of William Faulkner's story. There is one...

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

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

An analysis consisting of five pages compares the ways in which three protagonists attempt to improve their lives. The works exam...

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...

secrets are inferred. That her father suppressed her sexuality and thwarted her womans life is clearly stated. The town assumes t...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

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

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

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

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

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