Emily McLaughlin

In “Sweat”, Delia is a frequent church goer making her a good Christian who is nice and forgives and forgets. Since Delia washes the white clothing, it “represents her saintly tendencies as she humbly tolerates Sykes’ torment”, (McLaughlin 1). Delia knows that her husband Sykes has a mistress, Bertha, and that he abuses Delia’s hard work by offering Delia’s house to Bertha as well as the fact that Delia’s money goes to paying the rent for the only place that would actually take Bertha in. Delia has to put up with a miserable life, and a husband that abuses and cheats on her all because she is a good Christian woman who does not believe in divorce. Delia also represents God-like ways through her fear of the snake. While the snake was represented as something that Delia was deathly afraid of, the snake actually ended up saving her life. Hurston incorporates the snake in “Sweat” to recall of the famous biblical story of Adam and Eve where a man is controlled by a snake. Much…

Throughout the span of this course we have read a wide variety of stories, many of them containing the theme of love. Love is feeling a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. Everybody knows what it is like to love someone if it being a family member, a significant other, yourself, or even a pet. With most of the stories there were more than one instance where love was presented. There are so many ways to think about a situation and more times than not you can rule there is a certain…

isolation I talked about “A Rose for Emily”, “”Trifles”, and “The Facebook Sonnet” because they…

After Junior’s Grandmother dies they hold a nice funeral for her. The entire community from the rez and other reservations were there to pay their respects to Grandmother because she was such a loved person. The funeral was sad but in the end everyone was laughing and crying. Unfortunately there are many deaths on the reservation. When someone dies the entire community comes together. With loss there is always something to gain. When Junior’s Grandmother dies, her death brings the community…

In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, there is an issue of mental that is openly ignored due to the view the town has of Emily. The people in the town never seem to confront the apparent mental issues that are going on. They seem to pity her, but go the extra mile to not actually confront the issues. While they are curious about her life and what goes on in the house, they do nothing to help her even to the detriment of other people. The house has not had visitors in…

While we were perusing in English class a short story on "A rose for Emily" in Chapter 1 of William Faulkner 's A Rose for Emily, as we read we discovered a couple data about Miss Emily, she originates from an effective and very much regarded family which was started from the south and through time they have lost their notoriety and their energy because of family matters and issues, it was said that miss Emily relatives were distraught and it was past down to era to era until it contacted her.…

In the story Emily lived with her father who was known as a greedy and powerful man. His scary nature is seen in a scene from the standpoint of the town her father demand her with his rules and kept her away from living a normal life. She wanted to date boys just like any other girl, but her father didn’t allow her to date because no one is good enough for Emily. Later in the story it is obvious that her father’s selfishness had a strong consequence on his daughter. He wanted to keep her for…

The Hidden Motive: “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner’s story of a daughter who was born into wealth in the deep South, “A Rose for Emily” leaves the reader with the impression that no one will ever know if the meaning of the story directly relates to the motive for the murder of Homer Barron. Faulkner’s use of first person plural narration, left the reader in suspense with a need to be the detective in the case of the noble women who murdered her lover. Since Tobe, the servant, ran off as soon as…

something to hide under. But she never knew whether the monster was in that room or not. “Will you get up already?” Emily’s sister Molly shouted. Emily sprung out from her covers struggling as as it seemed she grabbed them for shelter in the middle of the night. Emily sat there for minutes trying to figure out why this dream keeps on resurfacing. She trudged out of bed and did the same old routine. Get dressed, eat, brush hair and then brush teeth. Once at school, she went through the same…

Faulkner and Flannery O’Connell. As it can be seen in both A Good Man Is Hard to Find and a rose for Emily. The two portray interplay from generations to another which manifests itself as resistance to change in previous generations. The grandmother in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Emily in a rose for Emily are more or less the same to one another regarding to the themes in the stories. Through subservient motives as privilege, nostalgia, and irony the overarching theme of death is effectively…