A Rose For Emily And Gothic Literature

Emily is becoming obsolete just as her china painting lessons. Like the appearance of her house, Emily has also become an eyesore. For example, she is described as a "fallen monument" (Akers71) to symbolize her former beauty and her later ugliness, "fallen because she has shown herself susceptible to death and decay after all" (Akers149) . Like the house, Emily has lost her beauty. Once a beautiful woman to look at, she now looks "bloated like a body long submerged in motionless water"(Akers 73) . Emily has not always looked this way. She used to be fair looking. but now she wears black clothes, much like a mourner's style of dress. Both house and occupant have suffered the negative effects of time and neglect"A Rose for Emily" emphasizes the way that beauty and grace can become distorted through neglect and lack of love. The symbolism and Faulkner's descriptions of the decaying house, coincide with Miss Emily's physical and emotional decay, and also emphasize her mental degeneration. Miss Emily's decaying house, not only lacks genuine love and care, but so does she in her adult life as well as her childhood. Emily meets Homer Barron, a symbol of progression and change. Once Homer Barron enters Miss Emily's house, and her life, he is bound to her forever without escape. She murders him and preserves his body much as one would a dead rose. She loves Homer and preserves his love the only way she knows how,

Southern Gothic literature is a sub-genre of the Gothic writing style. It is unique to Southern America. Southern gothic style is a style of writing that engages very ugly and ironic events to study the value of the American south and its people. In this essay, I’m going to go over each story and give some details about the authors and their backgrounds. On one page, I will be comparing and contrasting all three stories. I will show how they’re similar through tone, plot, and scene in the story. And at the end, I am going to describe the three stories; “A Rose for Emilycomma inside quotes”, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, and “Sanctuary”. Period inside quotes All of these short stories are good examples of southern gothic writing, because

Next, horror is developed in “A Rose for Emily” by the southern gothic elements. Emily’s psychological issues depict a twisted turn in the story. When Emily keeps her father’s body in her house for three days after he died, it sets up for a future turn of events. After she dies, the town women go to her house, but when they get to her house and go inside; they discover her lover petrified in the upstairs room. “The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin” (Para. 58). Homer, her lover and husband to be, was dead in the bed. Emily poisoned him because she did not want him to leave again, so she could keep him forever. She is

Miss Emily kills Homer Barren (H.B) because the combination of the death of her controlling father, Isolation, and the possibility of H.B rejection Miss Emily mental broke. A Rose for Emily is a Southern Gothic short story by William Faulkner often the narrator addresses the protagonist as Miss Emily, which infers that the narrator is someone that cares for her; for example, a potential lover that her father ran away or Tobe Miss Emily’s domestic. Evidence within the text gives clues why and how Homer Barron murder.

Mystery, horror, the grotesque, violence, and the supernatural are all characteristics of Gothic literature. Edgar Allan Poe’s life was filled with personal tragedy and professional failure which was reflected in his writing. Poe has written many stories that involve death, horror, and violence which are all present in gothic literature. “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” both show Poe's gothic writing style.

Emily Grierson lost the man nearest and dearest to her heart, her father. “She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body, just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.”(Faulker 302). Emily Grierson was obviously very delusional to not allow people to bury her dead father, instead for three whole days she kept telling everyone he is not dead. Ultimately, this is because her father is all Emily ever had. She became very dark, lonely, and depressed after her father passed away. She soon found someone to fill the loneliness with, it was Homer Barron (Faulkner 302). Later it appeared her motives seemed to be different with Homer Barron. She went to see the local druggist in town and told him “I want arsenic.” (Faulkner 303). The next time Homer Barron went into Emily Grierson’s house, no one saw Homer Barron again and it wasn’t until years later that they saw Emily Grierson. “When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning grey.” (Faulkner 304). Emily Grierson ended up dying in the home Homer Barron never came out of. After she passed away, the people of the town finally went into her mysterious home that

She loved the man so much that killed him and kept his dead, decomposing body. Miss Emily loved a man so much that she killed him and kept him. In William Faulkner’s narrative “A Rose For Emily,” the main character Miss Emily spent part of her life hoarding away the dead body of Homer Barron and Faulkner leaves out the details of her experience with the decomposing body but science shows that she would have experienced the stages of bloat, active decay, and advanced decay.

In “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner share a story of several decades in the life of a lonesome matron, Emily Grierson. With an unidentified narrator, the viewpoint are residents from Emily’s town who watched and studied her since being a young woman residing with her much controlling father. Emily continues to live in her father's house following his death. She is accompanied by a loyal manservant. Years later, a laborer by the name of Homer Barron, from up North, arrives with a project crew. The Homer and Emily are said to be keeping each other company from time to time. Later on Emily travels to the apothecary to purchase arsenic. Homer is never seen again and for thirty years Emily does not leave her home. She grows old and fat with long, iron-gray hair. She stays solitary and eventually dies. Shortly after, the manservant turns the house over to the city and is never seen again. The curious townspeople travel through the vacant house they find a locked room. Breaking down the door they discover a dusty, faded room. In the room is a bed occupied by a skeleton of a man with clothes and toiletries inscribed with Homer’s initials. On the indented pillow next to the

In “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner alludes to how Emily hides the dead body of Homer Barron, by how the story previously mentions that Emily denies her father’s death, the police have to take the body by force, she bought arsenic, Homer Barron was never seen coming out of Emily’s house, and that there was a repulsive smell for months. To start, when Emily’s father had passed away inside of their house, she told others “that her father was not dead” as she had “no trace of grief on her face” (3). Being that she did not admit to the body, Emily shows that she was in denial of the death, and this connects to the ending by how no one questioned if Homer was not alive, so she never had to confess. Another hint of the ending, was the fact that the police were “about to resort to law and force” in trying to “dispose of the body” of Emily’s father (3).

Faulkner's choice of setting- Emily's house and the town of Jefferson- creates a reflection of Emily's life, hints that something weird happened in Emily's home, and helps create the mysterious mood of the story. The house is a reflection of Emily Grierson throughout her life. At the beginning, Emily is beautiful, young, and happy, but over time, she begins to decay and sinks into a depression. After her lover, Homer Barron, leaves, the depression is worse.

Emily Grierson loses two loved ones, her father and the man she loved, Homer Barron. Doña Ernestina loses her husband and her son. The two characters live a lonely and isolated life. In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily’s father separates her from society and makes sure she has no lovers. When he dies, she has to accept the reality that she has no one and has to find her role in society instead of being an outcast. The story does not mention any siblings or her mother, giving off the appearance that she is isolated and disconnected. Emily lives in a big house alone. Emily refuses to acknowledge that her father dies, so the town has to pester Emily for her father’s burial. She finally breaks down and buries her father. Emily stays in the house for several months, aging as time comes along. She meets Homer Barron and falls in love with him but finds out he has no interest in her. The townspeople pity her, saying ““Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her””(Faulkner 180) because they know she seeks a lover. When she meets Homer Barron, she kills him. After Emily’s death the townspeople think that she has been sleeping next to Homer‘s dead body. Emily does this because she does not want to sleep alone because it means she is alone. In Nada, Doña Ernestina is also left in isolation with no remaining family; not only having to deal with her husband’s death, but later she has to deal with her son’s death leading her to more depression. Now, she feels she has “nada”, meaning nothing. She dresses in full mourning attire but does not break down or cry. She thinks she has no one; however, she does have the ladies in her apartment who want to comfort her. The people in her

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner takes place a few years after the Civil War in a town called Jefferson. The action of the story is centered in Miss Emily's home. The narrator of the story is a townsperson who recalls Miss Emily’s life through a series of flashbacks. The story has many elements of Gothic because the themes of love lost, death, and murder are all present in it. Other elements that suggest about the Gothic nature of the story are Emily’s description, her house, the poison she bought, and ultimately the ending. Some aspects in the story deviate from the norm of Gothic literature because Emily and Homer can be perceived as a traditional love story that every Gothic has, but it follows another path of doom. Emily ends the love between her and Homer when she takes his life, which in return dooms her for a life without love and a life of isolation. “A Rose for Emily” emphasized larger implications of straying from the traditional elements such as marriage can lead to insanity and isolation.

How Emily Brontë Fulfills the Expectations of the Gothic Genre Within this essay I will examine the social and historical background of Emily Brontë's upbringing, and the way her only novel, wuthering height, is related to the gothic genre. Emily Brontë was brought up in a time very different from our own; she lived on secluded moors and without many of our modern day privileges, and became very close to her family. Many of her close family members died within her lifetime, affecting her deeply and leaving her emotionally scarred.

In short stories, Modernism and Gothicism both play a very important role in character development and portrayal of themes. These literary movements can be compared and contrasted between two shorts stories, “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. For Modernism, these stories both show a break in traditional ideals involving the typical views of society. In relation to Gothicism the most obvious element is the confusion between good and evil; also, both of the protagonists in these stories are outcast within society, but the ways they became outcast differ vastly. Altogether, these similarities and differences of these elements connect the stories smoothly thanks to the purposeful use of literary movements.

The term ‘gothic’ is mostly connected to an angst adolescent with jet black hair, heavy onyx eyeliner, and charcoal clothings, among other characteristics. However, it goes more deep than that. According to Study.com, ‘gothic literature’ refers to a style of writing that relates to horror, death, and gloom and others. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner recounts a dysfunctional woman named Emily Grierson who was born into an aristocratic family, where the townspeople believed she was scornful and a chore they held. When her father passed away, Emily slowly and surely became mentally sick. In the end, it is revealed that she killed Homer Garner, her homosexual partner. Faulkner’s 1930 classic is a prime example of this genre due to the elements it includes such as the elements of decay, the isolation of the protagonist and damsel in distress, and the high emotions that are exerted by the main character.