Ron Joyce

In the story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the narrator discusses the life of a woman that grows old and lonely in complete isolation due to her tragic life. Miss Emily’s father later on passes away and that takes a complete toll on her life. Her home has turned into the most repulsive looking home on one of the busiest streets in the city. Beforehand exquisite and white with looked over galleries it was presently infringed with dust and rot. The townspeople talk about Miss Emily…

conflict of the story is the effect of the internal conflict. Connie does not know who she is, therefore, is left to make a difficult decision that will affect both Connie and her family's life. Joyce Carol Oates displays how the internal struggle of self-discovery and family dysfunction leads to great dangers. Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates this through the plot and characters of the story. To begin, Connie's internal conflict starts with members of her own family. The largest conflict she…

Short Story Analysis Jeffery Sumber, a clinical psychotherapist, believes a dream reveals a person’s “deepest desires and deepest wounds.” (Tartakovsky) In the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” Connie is a young vulnerable fifteen year old girl; who longs for love, affection, and attention from the male populace. Her adolescent mind is consumed with thoughts of boys and being in love, as well as obsessing over her appearance and being accepted by others. One afternoon as…

In “Young Goodman Brown”, “A Rose for Emily”, and “The Spiced Chicken Queen”, the authors have used their writing to give the readers a glimpse behind the stereotypes of the narrator’s communities . In “A Rose for Emily”, the narration by the townsfolk shows the reader what happens behind closed doors in the home of a once central and respected family. In “Young Goodman Brown”, seeing the real corruption behind what he believed to be his religious and pious community makes Goodman Brown lose…

William Faulkner’s “A rose for Emily” is a story about a poor woman who is sad and alone. Miss Emily is a powerful figure in the townspeople, but has no life at all. Her father was dominating and a selfish person. He dictated all facets of her life. Her father rejected all the men who were interested in Miss Emily. After her father died she found love in Homer Barron, but she ends up killing him and seals his body in up-stair room. The reason why she killed him remains a mystery. The author…

To begin with, symbolism played a huge role in helping Joyce Carol Oates get her purpose of writing “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” out to the reader. The character’s name Connie was shown throughout the passage to represent the word ‘concubine’, which is defined as a mistress. One way of supporting this claim is when Oates announced that “Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home…” (pg 1). She could be called a concubine for her…

In the story “A Rose for Emily”, Emily allowed her father to have total control of her life which ended up determining the course of her life. She was a well-respected person in her town to a certain extent. Emily knew when her father passed away there was no hope of her reviving her life to get back all the moments she missed because of him. Faulkner presented clear evidence on why Emily shouldn’t have allowed her father to corrupt her life in such a way, because it only brought upon pain,…

William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is about Jefferson, Mississippi during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on the life of Emily Grierson and the conflict Emily has with her father, the townspeople, and Homer Barron. In this story, Faulkner explains the emergence of the industrialized South and how the old agrarian South resists transition to the more modern, industrialized world. A Rose for Emily is narrated by the townspeople who look back on the life and death of Emily Grierson and the…

Maria in her family drama novel, “ Where’d You Go Bernadette” meticulously portrays that disappearing does not solve anyone's problems, especially when it comes to family. Semple supports her assertion through her character's direct emotional feel towards one another, “ This isn’t cancer’, he said…. ‘Instead of facing reality, she escapes’…. ‘ Because she wants me to know.’Know what?’’ The truth”. The author’s purpose is to entertain the audience by pointing out an unordinary and unique family…

Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” has been discussed, at length, throughout the literary and academic community since it was first published in 1966. Literary critics have discussed a variety of analogies between fairytale, or mythological, characters, and the characters in Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Oates uses subtle, and sometimes obvious, references to a variety of childhood fairytales and…