Part one of term paper
At first glance a reader might not think much of the quote: “It is not I that belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.” The quote is by Mary Antin, and could just have easily been said by Emily, a character in William Faulkner’s literary work entitled “A Rose for Emily”. In this work, Faulkner created a contrast between ...

Part two of term paper
... The present, however, was expressed primarily through the words and views of the unnamed narrator of whom, most believably, could be perceived as the town. The new Board of Aldermen, Homer Barron and in what is called by Faulkner “the next generation with its more modern ideas” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 81). The descriptions of her house “lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 80) ...