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…more of every day she is home. Her own spiritual and emotional journeys are reflected in part by her changing views of the town's pet birds, the peacocks. The town's women founders, the blue-eyed, dark-haired Gracela sisters from Spain, arrived to wed…

…), probably could be found in any small town high school football stadium. The choice for a Polack to be "nursing" on a beer, kind of sets the scene for the type of people one might expect to be enthralled in a high school football game. Polacks seem…

…with "fear and suspicion are infectious". This is your basic idea of rumors and gossip. For example, many of the town's people were convicted of witchery, do to the fact that someone suspected that person was practicing witchcraft or they feared that person…

…In “A Worn Path” the author, Eudora Welty, describes an old black woman and her journey through the woods into town. Phoenix Jackson, the old woman, obviously was very poor. “She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops…

…Julie “all the way home, hollerin’” (102) and laughing at her. Julie did not show her face in town for a long time. Jim and his gang made sure that everyone in town found out, except for Doc Stair. If Paul would not have heard Jim gloating, the Doc might have…

…. They are striving to survive; the mother decides to make baskets. The main character then sells them in town. First it isn't successful, but then everybody knows him, and wait for more baskets. Everyday he brings home the needed goods. And they manage to survive…

…, for it was through deep snow drifts and had a very hard path to follow. When she made it to town she went to the butchers and not knowing that she had a very long and cold trek, the butcher filled her burlap sack full of goods. This made her walk home even harder. She…

…home. The day after that she bought rat poison , and two days later a neighbor saw Homer get let in by Tobe her servent. That was the last they saw of Homer. The Town had thought he just wasn’t the marring type, but Emily buying poison was a foreshadow…

…Emily Grierson’s reasons for being crazy In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the main character, Emily Grierson, is a woman completely isolated from her town. She has grown up her whole life in the same house, with the same butler, and primarily…

…Russia was like a traditional being, who is accepted by a small community. The poor Jews have no guarantee of life, or any insurance to stay in the town. Also, their freedom to live in the town can be taken away any time from them by the governing power…