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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...
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...
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...
fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...
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...
child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...
necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...
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...
This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...
In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...
starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...
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 presents an overview of the black family in a consideration of community identity of the individual, gend...
the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...
a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...
In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of single women in this comparison and contrasting of Morrison's novel and Willia...
In five pages Arthur Miller's social drama is analyzed in its portrayal of post World War II family values as they existed in the ...
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 ...
important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...
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...