The purpose of this paper is to investigate Miss Emily's character and her motives. In William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily", he characterizes Miss Emily as a proper southern woman who would do anything to fill the hole in her life after her father's death while averting the change around her. ... He uses the house to symbolize Miss Emily and her static character among the rest of the town and community. ... The biggest change in the round character's life, that the story presents, is the death of her father. ... The main character in this story symb...

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Even though the stories and characters carry harsh moral lessons, they are quite intriguing and skillfully written. ... She questions him and he tells her the following parable: They lead a very tragic life they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. ... But once they get in they behave like pigs Naturally, after that they"re so fat they can't get out of the hole again. ... A bananafish imprisons itself in a banana hole, and while enjoying these simple pleasures, he gives up his freedom. ... The character of Seymour is quite aware of his snobbish wife and disapprovin...

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The main character and protagonist in the story is a little boy named Colonel Sartoris. ... Also, in the first paragraph we are introduced to the main character and protagonist in the story, Sarty. ... Abner's continuing contempt for "they", in this case, De Spain, is no less evident by the fact that after De Spain confronts Abner with the demand for having his rug cleaned and returned to him, Abner ruins the rug by rubbing a hole through it with a rock. ...

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His friend Willis and he had dug the hole for Strout's body days earlier. ... The fact that Matt Fowler is a round character makes it difficult for me to summarize all the different emotions he displayed in this selection. As a dynamic character, his range of emotions change from frustration and anger to disbelief and moral insecurity. ...

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The story is intriguing because until close to the end the writer does not start to reveal the true nature of the character. ... Because we are have this image that what we all do individually does not effect us as a hole, because of course we are all individuals that live in separate planets which don't effect everybody else's, right? ... So he puts down his deepest yearnings into this hole immortality bid, which gives insight of the common bond of all living things. ...

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People spend their whole lives trying to flee from something. A person's life echoes her upbringing, unless she does everything in her power to get away. In the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, her character Dee portrays the need to escape. Dee was ashamed of her family and their he...

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The two main characters, the American man and his female companion referred to as "girl-, are having a conversation that supports this theory. ... If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story- (pg. 233). ... While waiting for a train at a junction somewhere in Spain, the dialogue between the American man and the girl over a few drinks seems simplistic at first but the sarcasm on behalf of the girl surfaces the tensions that exist between the two characters. ... The reader sympathizes with the tension between the two characters and follows argume...

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There was much talk of Tan's ability to create such vivid and easily understood characters, and rightly so. ... The same is true for the characters in the novel. ... This holds true until the very last of these parables, which is a coming together of sorts for the characters (Huntley 44). ... Her character is representative not only of the daughters" point of view, but the mothers" as well (Huntley 44). ... This space has created a hole of sorts in the tradition of the Joy Luck Aunties; they already feel their old world ways slipping away from them, especially when they realize how fr...

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