Carol Ann Duffy

In the story “ A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner starts off with Emily Grierson, the main character of the story dead with the whole town attending her funeral. The towns people are sad but, they are more curious about Emily house. Like what happened, or what Emily’s house looked like over ten years. William Faulkner expresses this by using the words “the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house.” The author uses the first paragraph to catch the reader's attention…

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” Rough Draft In the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, there are multiple ways to interpret what it is conveying. Joyce Carol Oates managed to make a story where the genre can be seen as “psychological realism” and “realistic allegory”. In it, the main character, named Connie, is on a search for independence be hanging out at a restaurant. Through further analysis, it can be revealed that Connie and Arnold’s relationship mirrors that of…

In my visual of Miss Maudie, it illustrates her compassionate and considerate personalities throughout the novel and also portrays the scene that happened in the novel. For the background, I decided to draw out the scene when Miss Maudie’s house was on fire. It was an important scene in the novel because it showed her positive attitude toward the difficulties that she was facing. I drew Miss Maudie standing outdoor with her gardens beside her; the various types and colors of flowers in the…

“Why I Live at the P.O.,” by Eudora Welty, tells a story of the difficulties a girl comes across when her sister's comes back into her life. The author uses a first-person point of view to provoke a sense of sympathy from the reader. The narrator of the story is told only from the Sister's point of view and describes Stella as being ruined and severely turning everybody against her. While telling this store Sister exposes her own character as well as many family secrets. From the Sister’s point…

I choose to explore William Faulkner’s tale, “A Rose for Emily”. The two principal themes I am writing about is the “Old South” vs. the “New South” and the portrait of human loneliness and desperation. Emily’s house is very much like herself. Her house is a symbol of the dying world of the old south, as the rest of the developing town represents the new south. The house’s architecture and style is from the 1870s and much has changed by the time the story took place. The town describes her house…

In the short story “ A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, Emily’s life can go in chronological order with the information given in the story; however, Faulkner deliberately uses the flashback method to keep his readers interest in the story. By using this method and going back to the flashback the reader wants to know the ending . Knowing by reading the story, there is some twist at the end, but the passage leaves the reader uncertain to what the twist is. If the writer writes the story in…

A Story By Joyce Oates: A Dark Endless Road In Joyce Carol Oates story, “Where are your going, Where have you been?” it tells a short story about a fifteen-year old girl who is trying to find herself as a woman. Connie is constantly concerned with the way she looks and has a habit of “craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces…” (294). Connie realizes that she has the ability to attract boys by dressing and doing her hair a certain ways. She is discovering her own…

In the story "A Rose for Emily", the author, William Faulkner, portrays Emily as a mysterious older lady, which is unusual. In most people 's idea of an older woman, everyone knows what is going on with her; she talks about her grandchildren and pays her bills. Emily Grierson was not like that at all. She was, in fact, the complete opposite. She was traditional, stubborn, overly adoring over subjects that could easily be solved a different way. Emily Grierson lives in traditional ways. She felt…

Jessmin Marie Gaerlan Engl 1B – Tomb Compare and Contrast Essay The two stories I have decided to compare and contrast from one another were Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates, and Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer. I do not support the parenting styles of Connie’s parents in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? nor of the parents mentioned in Once Upon a Time. I have found that discouraging children through words, having a lack of communication and effort in…

Sexuality is expressed differently in every country and culture on the planet. To an even greater extent, males and females have different views on how to handle intimate situations. These views are made evident in Anton Chekhov’s and Joyce Carol Oates’ versions of “The Lady with the Pet Dog.” Currently, our society incorrectly assumes men to crave sex and women to be infatuated with love. The emotional aspects of sexual relationships, the treatment of unfaithfulness, and the treatment of sexual…