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A 3 page paper which
examines how the authors bring their characters to life. The paper examines Kate
Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Sack of Amontillado” and
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAhremly.rtf
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The authors of literature must, in one way or another, bring those characters to life. It does not even matter if we like the character or not, the important factor
is making the character a deep and intriguing individual that we are interested in reading about. The following paper examines three characters from three pieces of literature. The paper focuses
on how each of these three characters is brought to life partially through their vulnerability as human beings. The stories examined are Kate Chopins "The Story of an Hour," Edgar
Allen Poes "The Cask of Amontillado" and William Faulkners "A Rose for Emily." Vulnerability The main character in Chopins "The Story of an Hour" is a relatively simple
woman who has obviously done her duty well. She has been faithful and loyal to her husband, and has lived up to the expectations of society. But, when she hears
that her husband is dead she suddenly becomes more of an individual, more of a person in her own right. She sits for an hour imagining and feeling the freedom
that awaits her. She insists that she did love her husband, in her own way: "And yet she had loved him--sometimes" (Chopin). But marriage itself was a stifling reality that
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vulnerability allows her to dream of a
future life that is free from marital obligations, a life of freedom for individuality. Then, in the end she sees her husband is not dead after all, and she herself
dies. This vulnerability makes her a character we are interested in and a character we can care for. In Poes "The Cask of Amontillado" we have, as we would
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