James Joyce

Parents often have a large impact upon the way their children mature into adulthood. In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily Grierson’s actions are influenced by her father. Emily lives in an old, dilapidated farmhouse in a small town in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, between 1861 and 1933. Emily’s father shelters her for her entire life and keeps her all to himself. Rarely allowed outside of the house, she is hardly able to socialize with the people in the town. Her…

In the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, the downfalls of Connie are her insecurities and low self esteem resulting in her going with Arnold Friend at the end of the narrative. This is shown through the descriptions in the beginning of the story as well as Connie’s actions involving Arnold. Connie is a fifteen year old girl who is having some internal conflicts and this majorly affects the outcome of the story. At the beginning of the story, it…

the narrator or character. The term stream of consciousness was initially coined by a psychologist, William James, in his research 'The Principles of Psychology'. He writes: “… it is nothing joined; it flows. A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ is the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let’s call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life.” (James, 1950). In a literacy sense the thoughts and internal monologue shed light on the plot…

Blooming in Winter A Rose for Emily’s use of metaphor and unique symbols fuse together to create a southern gothic tale of a murderous, abandoned, elderly woman who fears the unknown and seeks companionship. William Faulkner uses a unique literary device in which the narrator is the entire town rather than one person, Miss Emily is seen through gossip and rumours rather than her true nature. Faulkner uses this way of storytelling to create an interesting yet thought provoking short story. A…

William Faulkner, the writer of the short story “A Rose for Emily” was a traditional southern man who liked to use symbolism of his characters to relate to the downfall of the south. Throughout my analysis, the trend of the South running itself into the ground from thinking they were so high up and the South never allowing themselves to explore different opportunities because they only knew what they were taught, appears. He uses these particular themes and puts them into symbols by using Emily…

A Resistance to Change “A Rose for Emily” written by the late William Faulkner is a Southern Gothic short story. Faulkner (1897-1962) being a Southerner himself from Mississippi, uses the social, economic and cultural standing of the city post-Civil-War about all his literary works. The context of which the story was written is in medias res; the midst of action. This gives readers a form of the story’s background information prior to reading. Specifically, however, the story entails on the…

5 Conclusion Comparing the Quinceañera and the Sweet 16 celebration, it turns out that they have many points in common but differ as well. Starting with the similarities, both developed through anterior coming of age ceremonies, and are only celebrated by girls. They both are rite of passage ceremonies, which honor the completed childhood of the girl and celebrate the beginning of the new life chapter as a woman. The girls make new experiences and have to face more responsibilities by turning 15…

Fantasies inside ¨Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been¨ show Connie´s freedom to an extent, in which her own knowledge and persona become her crutch in the aftermath of her conflict. But, however, In ¨Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” Joyce Oates uses Connie struggle against Arnold to portray her fear of adulthood as well as symbolize her innocence being tarnished, which resulted her in maturing. Foremost, the conflict begins with Connie trying to become, visually, a woman so that…

In this essay we’ll be exploring the different symbols found in William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily”. The “rose” in the title, Emily’s house, the hair found on the bed, Emily's watch, the lime to cover up the smell, and the arsenic used to kill homer are all pieces that have a deeper/symbolic meaning to them. When the town's Aldermen came to Emily's house on the matter of collecting taxes, Faulkner specifically made the reader direct their attention to the the ticking pocket watch that is…

One of the interesting techniques that Faulkner uses to develop ‘A Rose for Emily’ was his use of an unnamed narrator whose relationship to Emily and whose role in the life of the town is somewhat uncertain. Still, the reader cannot help but be curious by the way in which the narrator tells the story of Miss Emily. Faulkner constantly uses the word “we" to describe the feelings of the townspeople and their suspicions of Miss Emily. In this essay, the effect of this narrative style will be…