Character Analysis

Character Analysis: Overview. Emily the Fallen Rose In the story “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner uses characterization to reveal the character of Miss Emily. Her character is portrayed through physical description, her actions, feelings and words, and through the narrator’s remarks about Emily’s nature, and through the actions, words, and feelings, of the other […]

Character Analysis of the Glass Menagerie. Tom’s double role in The Glass Menagerie—as a character whose recollections the play documents and as a character who acts within those recollections—underlines the play’s tension between objectively presented dramatic truth and memory’s distortion of truth. Unlike the other characters, Tom sometimes addresses the audience directly, seeking to provide […]