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Southern Gothic Southern Gothic writing style is about ironic, macabre events that focus on the Old South. William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor are known for writing Southern Gothic short stories. Southern Gothic stories are about “lurid, macabre subject matters,” that, “social issues and illuminate the cultural climate of the American south.” (Thomas) Two excellent examples of Southern Gothic short stories are William Faulkner’s, “A Rose for Emily” and Flannery O’ Connor’s, “A Good Man is…

Southern Gothic literature is a writing style unique to American literature in that it uses supernatural, ironic, and unusual events to reveal and examine the values and character of the South. Sothern Gothic authors use certain elements as tools to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the south. An example of this work is A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor. It is a deeply disturbing tale about a family trip to Florida gone wrong. O 'Connor 's work in A Good…

Both Maya Angelou and Lawrence Ferlinghetti explore the idea of inequality in their poems ‘Caged Bird’ and ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck Two beautiful people in a Mercedes’ respectively. Angelou explores the inequality between black and white people by comparing and contrasting a free bird to a ‘caged bird’ while Ferlinghetti describes inequality between the rich and poor by comparing a wealthy couple with a couple of garbage men. ‘Caged Bird’ is written in response to the civil rights act, with…

Southern Gothic Literature is a genre of literature that takes place in the south, usually dealing with twisted and despondent elements. Existing “in a crummy little sh-ttown in Alabama, called Woodstock,” as John B. McLemore calls it, is “S-Town,” a podcast with narration by Brian Reed. Instead of being a classic piece of Southern Gothic Literature, “S-Town” grasps themes that make it into a more modern and contemporary piece of Southern Gothic Literature, which lets people relate with it.…

Atticus Finch, a distinctive character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of this book takes place during the 1930s in Maycomb County, Alabama; In this period of time, the Jim Crow Laws still existed, especially in the South. The Jim Crow Laws were regulations that enforced the racial segregation between the blacks and whites. Besides this, the country was going through the Great Depression. This was the worst economic downturn in America. About 15 million Americans were…

and particularly praised for his Southern literature. He is known for his authenticity when it comes to the Southern way of life. He often used his real life experiences and included the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha which was based on the real-life county he grew up in many of his stories "A Rose for Emily" included. His short story "A Rose for Emily" I believe makes a great correlation between characters and aspects from his story to the Southern post-Civil War era. The…

which the title of novel ‘The Sound and The Fury’ has been taken. These lines, from Macbeth of Shakespeare, are very much suitable for the story of Faulkner’s this novel. It has been claimed by many critics that the story reflects multiple aspects of Southern society of America in twentieth century. It puts light on almost all the aspects of a society i.e. religious dogmas, traditional values, cultural disintegration, liberalism and freedom of women in the society, man as a modern but having…

and sinister theme. The Grierson family home serves as one of the many symbols in this story that Faulkner uses to stress the passage of time in the story. Through writing about this home to such great detail, Faulkner is better able to achieve a southern gothic style for the story. Faulkner writes, “miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay….an eyesore among eyesores.” Here, the house becomes a more symbolically complex, with change and decay revealing just more…

William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a story that addresses the symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect and poverty of the new times in the town of Jefferson. The rampant symbolism and Faulkner's descriptions of the decaying house, coincide with Miss Emily's physical and emotional decay, and also emphasize her mental degeneration, and further illustrate the outcome of Faulkner's story. Miss Emily's decaying house, not only lacks genuine love…

Country People”, both elude a comparable tone and mood consistent with her usual writing style. Both of these stories fit in with the Southern Gothic genre which has a very unique feeling. This type of literature often utilizes supernatural elements and irregularity of the grotesque focusing on people from Southern United States and their innate Christianity. Southern Gothic writing holds a focus on eccentric characters as well as moody and unsettling events. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” has…