William Faulkner is one of the most distinguished American writers of the twentieth century. ... William was named after his great-grandfather, William Clark Faulkner. ... He used this technique to dramatize the complexity of life and the difficulty of arriving at truth. " Reality and life weave together in one of Faulkner's many novels, As I Lay Dying. ... William Faulkner actually hated to leave Oxford. ... William Faulkner received many awards for his literature works before his death in 1962. ...

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William Faulkner is renowned as one of the greatest American observers of Southern life, recording many of his annotations is his extraordinary short stories. ... "I went because Uncle Willy was the finest man I ever knew, because even women couldn't beat him, because in spite of them he wound up his life getting fun out of being alive, and he dies doing the thing that was most fun because I was there to help him," is how the boy describes his admiration for Uncle Willy. ... The two younger siblings even seem to be oblivious to the fact that she is human stating things like, "I aint...

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William Faulkner does not always indict Christianity. ... This paper explores how Faulkner employs the minor character Whitfield in As I Lay Dying to belittle simplistic Christianity. ... Whitfield is crossing the river because, yes, he does not want Addie to tell of their fornication, but he also desires to make things right with her family before she dies: "I would say to her husband: "Anse, I have sinned. ... A single minor character like Reverend Whitfield has much to reveal about William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. ... Working toward a full understanding of the religious themes in ...

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Ironies of the Bundren Journey As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, is a novel set in the rural Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha in the early 1900's. ... "As I Lay Dying Reconsidered." Modern Critical Views: William Faulkner. ... Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. ...

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In his famous novel As I Lay Dying, Faulkner wrote in exactly this manner. ... However, As I Lay Dying does not have a protagonist. ... In As I Lay Dying however, readers do not get this advantage. ... Faulkner wrote in "As I Lay Dying", along with many other novels, in a style that is referred to as hypotaxis. ... This style led to much confusion in many of Faulkner's novels, including "As I Lay Dying....

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Theme Descriptions of As I Lay Dying William Faulkner portrays all of his themes in the actual human drama of the South, where William Faulkner grew up. ... In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner explores the impermanence of existence and identity. ... (Magill Book Review) One of the most important main characters in the novel was Addie, who is the mother and central character in As I Lay Dying. ... God, I believe in God." ... ("ClassicNotes") William Faulkner used all of these elements to create this novel through the eyes of his southern view, all based on the actual human drama of the Sout...

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Critical Analysis of "A Rose for Emily" Written by William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" is by literary means an outstanding short story which unveils the human condition in a time which still holds onto and remembers the past. ... In this light we become the gossip, the curious, and the collective, or as I believe the narrator himself. ... Ironically, Emily is buried with the rest of the town's history, laying next to the men who fought in the civil war. ... When she is confronted about paying her taxes, she states "I received a paper, yes", "Perhaps he considers himself the sher...

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That was until reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. ... I believe though that the reason she wants an abortion is because if she has the child Dewey feels like its anchoring her into her poor social class. ... Sometimes I wonder why we keep at it. ... If MacGowan saw Dewey as a socialite I doubt the idea of tricking her wouldn't have crossed his mind. ... Faulkner makes everyone who is from a higher class than the Bundrens looks down upon them without any real justification. ...

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With the character's actions revolving around her death, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying reveals the truth about the people who surround a person may take advantage of him or her. ... Addie is foremost the prominent abuser of her upcoming death in As I Lay Dying. ... "Addie is the one who is dying, but she makes revenges run throughout the family and extend beyond" (Wadlington 35). ... (Faulkner 213). ... Addie resents her children similarly in the way she resents her students when she expressed, "When school was out and the last one had left with his dirty s...

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By William Faulkner InA Rose for Emily?... When he died, Miss Emily refused to acknowledge his death. ... to show she is exempt from paying taxes and that she must pay her taxes, she repeats, "I have no taxes in Jefferson," and vanquishes them. ... And so she died. ... Emily fears that Homer's love will die away. ...

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In "A Rose For Emily- by William Faulkner Emily Grierson was viewed as a woman who did not have the individual confidence, or self-esteem to believe that she could be alone and succeed at life, especially in the face of changing times. ... The townspeople even said "when her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone She had become humanized- ( Faulkner, 459). ... She said "I want arsenic- (463). All along, the druggist wanted to know what she wanted it for and she answered back "I want the best you have. I don't ...

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William Faulkner wrote about suffering in the book As I Lay Dying. ... His late wife Addie describes Anse as a nice sweet young man, when Addie recalls him in her section as saying, "I looked up that day and saw Anse standing there in his Sunday clothes"(170). That's telling us that Anse was a good wholesome kid who tried his hardest to get Addie to notice him she says, "I saw him pass the school house three or four times before I realized he was going four miles out of his way"(170). ... Darl says that Anse tells everybody that, "if he sweats he will die"(17). ... Throughout the stor...

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"A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, tells us a story about Miss Emily Grierson. ... Three elements of language I find interesting in this story are symbolism, irony and imagery. ... " Therefore, Emily has not really dated and enjoyed the "Rose of Love", until her father dies, and Homer comes. ... In literal imagery, death is described directly by words meaning death, such as die, death, or dead. ... In "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner uses many elements of language, especially symbolism, irony and imagery. ...

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In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," Emily Grierson is the main character responsible for the murder of her lover, Homer Barron. ... This implies that Emily laid with the corpse of Homer quite frequently, from the time he died, to the time of her own death. ... "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge," (Poe 218). ... I had told them that I should not return until the morning," (Poe 219). ... In the end, Fortunato wins because he does not give Montresor the satisfaction of hearing him di...

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"McCarthy published his debut novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965, and was awarded the William Faulkner Award for it (Mote 1). ... The boy pleaded to his father to not take all he had but the father refused, "I don't think he should have anything" (McCarthy 149). ... Before the wife dies, she kept insisting of migrating to avoid the terrible cannibalistic people that hunt for weak. ... On the mattress a man lay with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. ...

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Gatsby, the Player -----Character Building of Great Gatsby Gatsby's greatness lies not in his prospect of his future, but in his uncompromising insistence to "repeat the past"(116), when he irremediably fell in love with Daisy. The past life, to Gatsby, is the type that he can only conceiv...

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