Create a 7 page essay paper that discusses A Comparative Analysis of Selected Works by Faulkner, Hewingway and Shanley.Download file to see previous pages... Throughout the paper I shall attempt a tho

Create a 7 page essay paper that discusses A Comparative Analysis of Selected Works by Faulkner, Hewingway and Shanley.

Throughout the paper I shall attempt a thorough comparative analysis both of and between each of the three selected works. This analysis will encompass areas such as the setting, style and structure as well as a discussion on the relative characters and themes involved before attempting to identify the general tone and symbolism apparent in each piece. First, here follows a very brief summary of each of the works. Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ focuses on the life of Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster. The circumstances are related by an unidentified narrator, detailing her relationships - both individual and collective – whilst consistently alluding to a terrible secret she stubbornly conceals. Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home’ revolves around the problems faced by the main protagonist, Harold Krebs, on his return from WW I and his attempts to reintegrate himself into society. Finally John Shanley’s play, Doubt deals with the fraught relationship between an austere disciplinarian nun, Sister Alonysius and the younger and more easy-going Father Flynn. Both are part of a Catholic school and when Sister Alonysius suspects the priest of ‘interfering’ with one of his students the remainder of the play focuses on the ensuing doubts each of the protagonists endure, hence the play’s title....

he setting here is essential to the story as the main protagonist Emily appears to be trapped to an extent in the city’s past “Our whole town went to the funeral…a sort of respectful affection to a fallen monument”(Faulkner para. 1). Hemingway’s story again is set in the South, the area where the author grew up. More crucial here, however, is the surprise most readers will experience when they learn that the ‘soldier’s home’ of the title is not the expected recreational home that war veterans retire to, but rather simply the childhood home of the chief protagonist himself. The story is set only a few years in the past just after the First World War and this is a period that, having such a profound effect on all involved, writer’s such as Hemingway were keen to explore. John Shanley’s play sees him follow the same method as above by setting the drama in the Bronx, the place where the author was raised. More specifically, the play is set in a Catholic school and is based in 1964. Whether this school represents the author’s own I am not sure, but the essential point in setting the stories in places that are well-known to the author is that it allows them to ‘flesh out’ the characters both more authentically and more convincingly. So let us now examine these characters in more detail. The similarity here between the Faulkner story and that of Hemingway is that they both employ the use of a third-person narrative to relate most of the tale. In fact, in a sense (certainly in the case of ‘Rose for Emily’) it can be argued that the narrators are actually the main characters in each piece.