"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

At this stage in his life, midway between birth and death, Prufrock is beginning to shift from awareness of the life instinct to awareness of the death instinct. He sees himself now like a crab scuttling across the floor of the ocean. This is a time identified with dusk, with the period between day and night, life and death. It is a time of yellow fog, making it more difficult for Prufrock to see the future or discern the meaning of the past. Again and again he repeats that "there will be time," when in fact it would seem that he believes there may not be time because he can now see through to the end. He has used up all the time he has and sees a shorter and shorter future for himself.

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d and has lost her looks, and thus his dream no longer exists somewhere out there in the world. For Dexter, this seems to destroy something important in him, an illusion he did not want to release. Dexter at the beginning of the story is a dreamer, and at the end he is losing one illusion after another. The fact that Judy and her beauty existed somewhere in the world continued to support him through the underlying dream they represented, and in the end he loses that and is left without the dreams that motivated him to financial success. 3. William Faulkner writes about the horrible legacy of slavery in the South and shows how the modern world has been shaped by that experience mostly for the worse. A family like the Compson's may think of itself as enlightened, but it has also been shaped by the same legacy. Nancy in "That Evening Sun" is the black woman they hire when their own maid, Dilsey, is ill, and her growing fear of her husband becomes an ongoing point of tension in the Compson household. There is no social justice in the world that the slave era has created. Nancy tries to kill herself in her jail cell, and when the guard cuts her down, he also beats her. She is arrested, and when she challenges a local white
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Approximate Word count = 2248
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)

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