Part one of term paper
William Faulkner (1897-1962) was one of the leading authors of the 20th century. Many of his novels and short stories were based on an imaginary area in Mississippi called Yoknapatawpna county. Famous for his depiction of the depravity and downfall of the southern aristocratic society, many of these stories’s themes revolve around fallen ...

Part two of term paper
... in society, and is left alone with only the crumbling remains of that gentility to support her. One of the most powerful devices used in this story is that the narrator is the town as a whole. Faulkner used this abstract view to supply the reader with unsympathetic emotions towards Emily. This unreceptive view is shown after Emily purchases arsenic, ”So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”(720 Faulkner). The impersonal outlook held by th ...