In the Old South and times only known in history book, women were involved with courtship love and faithfulness to only one lover. ... The narrator notes that while the men attend the funeral out of obligation, the women go primarily because no one has been inside her house for years, with many mysterious events happened through times ("A Rose for Emily-). ... He won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award and a Nobel Prize for Literature. ...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is important to note that common readers give up their sovereignty to the experts without knowing. ... The common reader will read the essay blindly by and the complex reader will read the book through the author's viewpoint. ... The common reader does not have this advantage because he is just reading along the book soaking up all Percy's ideas. ...

• Word Count: 1734
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Teresa Towner in her book "The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner" states that Faulkner's great grandfather, called for many people as "the Colonel" had a great influence on Faulkner's imagination and perception of the South, she also states: "in his fiction, subconsciously and on purpose, Faulkner used the materials of his life in very subtle, often tertiary ways" which is something it could be noticed in the short story "A Rose for Emily". ... A week later, the major wrote her himself and asked her to send his car for her and she repl...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

O'Connor describes the appearance of Grandmother's "leathery thin face " and the trousers of Red Sam whose "stomach hung over them like a sack of meal swaying under his shirt " ("A Good Man..."" 34, 37).The characters appear this way to foster the shock that O'Connor intends, and Enjolras notes it as the hallmark of her writing (8-9). ... (O'Connor, Habit 334) In his book, American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque, Anthony Di Renzo compares her work to the paintings of the Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch. ...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

He puts her number in his address book. ... It is important to note that fairly early in the story, the narrator makes the following statement "of course this is a summer romance, but bear with me and see with what banal literary irony it all turns out or does not turn out at all." ...

• Word Count: 2096
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School