Maggie May

It was the same old dream. She’d turn the key in the lock and open the door. To her horror, she’d see that same old monster. It was a different kind of monster although. She couldn 't see it even though she definitely tried to. She felt it move and creep around her. Looking at her every move and waiting for the right time to attack. She ran around the house trying to find something to hide under. But she never knew whether the monster was in that room or not. “Will you get up already?”…

“In good fiction, certain of the details will tend to accumulate meaning from the action of the story itself, and when this happens they become symbolic in the way they work” (O’Connor). In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” many components that may be initially dismissed in a passage, through intelligent writing, gather a deeper meaning. Homer, for example, appears to be just another tragedy to strike the pathetic life of Emily Grierson. However, many features linked to Homer leave the…

Disparities of social norms and social stratification is a common theme by Southern gothic writers such as William 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…

One of the great things about soccer is that it is not a school-sanctioned sport. To me this said that I could play another season of soccer with my friends from Socastee and Waccamaw without the normal High School rivalry between these schools. Year after year, the schools pulled pranks on each other, sometimes nothing big, but sometimes something big. I remember my freshman year, when a few guys I knew went over to Socastee and painted their skylight in their commons. When the sun shined into…

In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, Emily, the protagonist, life changed completely after her father’s death. Emily is forced to enter a completely different lifestyle, one where she finds difficulty adapting to thus, isolating herself from the townspeople. Furthermore, Emily appears to be a troubled woman who is in a great of denial and living in a world where she feels trapped while desperately searching for love. Therefore, let us examine her denial with reality, her…

“Just mention Alaska,” I told myself on my first day of fifth grade at Middletown Elementary. “People go crazy over it.” It was my first time moving in between school years and being young and gullible, I was excited for school. At the time I never realized how few go to Alaska, so I was confused every time the spotlight shined on me when I uttered that state. But I never did shy from it. I adored it. But no, I did not live in an igloo or ever met a penguin that wasn’t in a zoo. “I am…

treated herself. Miss Emily isolated herself from the community just because she did not want to associate with others. It can be inferred that she liked the attention because she never did anything to stop it. She allowed people to say things that may not even be true. She also was always very down on herself. She lived with one other person and never felt confident. She let her hair turn iron and gray which can in turn mean that she did not care what she looked like. She also isolated herself…

South. She was Old Dixie’s last true daughter. Her family, once wealthy and proud, is now gone and all that remains is a house, a decaying monument to the former stature of the Griersons. The town of Jefferson treats her as a tradition, and while there may be rumors among the townspeople, there is a pervasive feeling of uneasiness in how they relate to Emily. The narrator seems to hold a certain respect for Emily that is possibly borne out of this uneasiness, or perhaps fear of her. At the end…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, longing is “the action of yearning to desire,” and freedom is “the state or fact being free from servitude, constraint, inhibition, etc.” In "The Story of an Hour" and "A Rose for Emily," Louise Mallard and Emily Grierson respectively long for freedom from the control of their male authority and seek for self-control. However, both women long for freedom in different perspectives in their relationships. Louise in "The Story of an Hour" wants freedom…

People thought she would “become humanized” and “know the old thrill of a penny more or less” (518). This did not stop her from remembering and acting like a Grierson, who were once high and mighty people. Somewhere at this point is when the reader may start questioning her sanity. Emily is trying so hard to keep her life the same yet some events like her father’s passing just completely changes life. One could go insane from denial of…