Ron Joyce

In the short story “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, the plot revolves around a young narcissist named Connie. Connie is a 15 year old normal teenage girl relatively speaking. She has no interest in responsibility and often dreams of the Disney-like life of a beautiful girl being met by an extraordinary man. Connie’s desire to be rebellious, her desire to be better than others, and her desire to be noticed are the focus of this story. Despite the similarity in these…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s most well-known pieces of writing. It has been widely anthologized in many college English textbooks throughout all of America. This story is actually based on a true story about a serial killer named Charles Schmid based out of Arizona. He is responsible for the death of four people from the Tuscon area in 1960 and was sentenced to death for his actions. Oates creates her own version of this story using the characters…

Rowe and the Fritz sisters. Oates gained the idea for her story from a Life magazine article about Schmid. She wrote the story similar to legends of “Death and the Maiden”, and made her main character a young and vulnerable girl (Ramsland, n.d.). Joyce Carol Oates based Connie mostly on what had happened to Alleen Rowe. Connie, like Alleen, was lured out of her house while her family was not home and was not seen again. Oates elaborated on the real crime and added some fantastical elements to…

William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily was one of his first published short stories, published in Forum magazine in 1930. “A Rose for Emily” has become one of Faulkner’s most read and praised works due to its portrayal of aberrant psychological and political ideas. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner portrays the death of the traditional Southern way of life through his characters, including Miss Emily and the townspeople, places, such as Emily’s home and the town, and events that take…

In William Faulkner 's fictional short story, "A Rose for Emily" he illustrates Emily Grierson’s struggle to find her own identity in the judgmental society surrounding her. As the story continues, the generations become more modern. The encroaching subjective society tries to overcome Emily’s traditionalist manner, but Emily’s behavior conveys how she surpasses the new generation, and continued her tradition as though she did before. Faulkner’s use of a first person-plural narration potrays…

Many people in today’s world find it difficult to discover who they really are and what their purpose is in life. Nobody wants to be an outcast however sometimes fitting in can be difficult. William Faulkner shows us in his short story “A Rose for Emily” that a lot of times people rely on others to help them feel comfortable in life. Emily, the main character, was thought to be a kind of odd person however everyone had some level of respect for her. During the entire story nobody truly knew who…

Evidence. This is the only valid solution to solving every murder mystery case. There is always a series of events that lead up to finding the answer to "Who did it?". "A Rose for Emily," an exhilarating tale written by William Faulkner, falls into this category. In this short story, it tells of a woman, Miss Emily Grierson, who refuses to accept change. Shortly after her father 's death and her love Homer Barron 's disappearance, she became reclusive. After 40 years of mystery and theories,…

about reading in general. The four selections, “Life after High School”, “A Rose for Emily”, “A Jury of Her Peers”, and “Bartleby the Scrivener”, all have different reason for being included in my text book. The story “Life after High School” by Joyce Oates was very interesting. The plot structure of this story is a good example of how complex a plot can be. In the beginning, the story is introduced with the scene right…

In "A Rose for Emily", William Faulkner describes the story of an old and barren lady stuck voluntarily portion. Her controlling father kicked the basin precisely thirty years back and she has never completely found her own ground. Her home has transformed into the most appalling looking home on the once most select street in the city. In advance stunning and white with looked over shades, it was in the blink of an eye encroached with dust and decay. The overall public in Miss Emily 's city…

The period in American Literature following World War II and into the twenty-first century has been called "The Age of Anxiety." America was a lonely place after WWII. Now that the soldiers had returned and the American technological and industrial revolution can commence, life became more convenient. People no longer had to spend time managing their home and business as before, and boredom and loneliness crept in. This led to a lot more people having time to think about their lives and try to…