A Rose For Emily Journal Entry Analysis

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story with third party narration, centered on the main character, Emily Grierson. She is suppressed by her father, life expectations and community interest in her life. The reader gets a sense that Emily cracks under all the pressure and they soon realize after her death, when she is in her seventies, that she did in fact have a mental disorder.

In William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily," Emily does many things that a person who is normal would not do. In section two of the short story, the author begins to reveal Miss Emily creepy actions. It is my belief Miss Emily is psychologically disturbed when she kept her father's corpse, killed a man, and slept with a corpse until she died.

In this southern setting after the Civil War, Faulkner exposes the theme of resistance to change. A Rose for Emily is an assessment of the way some people deal with vicissitudes in their lives. Miss Emily Grierson who always subsisted under her father’s wings, displays serious issues after his death. The story begins with the end of Emily’s life. Poor Emily’s sentimental clutter and grotesque demeanor bring pity on her character. Some may argue that she was just misunderstood, others may see in her a psychologically unbalanced person, and that her attitude was simply a way of crying out loud for help. In any cases, Emily appears to be someone that the common mortal would feel compassion for, enough to deposit flowers on her grave. Her inability

William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily" is often held as a literary classic due to Faulkner?s ability to play with our mind and emotions almost to the point of frustration. However, there is much more than mind games that Faulkner plays that makes this story great. Emily Grierson, the main character, is a strong-willed stubborn old bitty, who was quite odd, this alone is a reason for greatness. To fully understand why Emily is the way that she is one must look past the obvious and truly look at Emily. Emily Grierson has a mental condition that is just itching to be discovered.

The short story, “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, tells of a middle-aged woman named Emily, who struggles to overcome the challenges of isolation in the community she lives in. She might just hold these characteristics, but there is a deeper meaning that Faulkner has given Emily that a great number of people do not discover on their first read. There are countless detailed pieces of figurative language and text that further explain Emily that includes the change of the town, the symbolism of Emily was told from a different perspective that was seen initially. Emily has way more about her, between the lines, that makes this story more interesting. The short story that Faulkner portrays in “A Rose For Emily” illustrates a sense of loneliness

In 'A Rose for Emily' by Faulkner we can meet with Emily's character. The plot starts at her big funeral. At the beginning we have already felt the bad connection between Emily and the community of the town. Most of them are appeared only because their curiosity. Later we found out more about her earlier life, that she was unsociable, lonely and mysterious. We witnessed that how the new generation wanted to take away her privileges for example her tax exemption. After her father’s death she finally seemed to be happy next to a man, but this didn't take for long. She ended up as a completely reserved woman who lives in the company of her servant and does not talk with anyone. In addition, she

As the dead body laid on the bed, Emily’s friends and family they never really understood her. “A Rose for Emily” was full of emotions some which were depression, and anxiety. All these emotions in the story make Emily Grierson seem like she is suffering from a mental illness. After a long and traumatic life lacking love and embrace of a man, it is evident that she is in an enormous amount of internal pain. The men who were in her life were either dead or they left her. Emily experienced many life-changing moments in her life. These experiences forcing her to change and adapt to her new situations also, causing her to make deranged decisions. In William Faulkner's, “A Rose for Emily” exemplifies a lack of love and loss of important people

In Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily” begins with Miss Emily’s funeral and then she is born into an aristocratic family. The vast settings and varieties of characters make it impossible for the story to be told by a single person, but by multiple characters. The short story also suggests that Emily was a victim of the values of the old south, but she butts the southern values again and again. Emily’s father was very protective of her and would kill any man she formed a relationship with. This made it to where Emily didn’t know how to treat a man because she didn’t have the social skills everyone else did at the time. In the book she was also depicted as the non-southern women in fact she was the exact opposite of a southern women.

In “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner, a story is told about a woman and her disturbingly interesting life. Emily is a woman who is respected. Along with respect, the townspeople are also very curious of Miss Emily’s secretive lifestyle. Through many tales told about her life the readers discover that Miss Emily has many strange things that she does. MIss Emily refuses to pay taxes, tries to keep her dead father’s body, is thought to have married a man that disappeared and lets her beautiful house go to ruin. Although Miss Emily’s family used to be revered after her father passed away, the town started to believe that Miss Emily was pompous. All of these things contribute to the odd way Miss Emily is thought of.

Throughout Faulkner’s work, the reader can experience through vivid details the difference of who Emily was at first and who she became. During the time her father was alive, Emily was alive as well. Although, her father never found someone worthy enough for Emily, she reminded

Faulkner says that the story needs compassion, pity, and a conflict of heart in order to be successfully written. The plot helps the reader feel compassion and pity. The conflict occurs when Miss Emily’s father died. When Miss Emily’s father died, all she had was a big empty house to herself. Her father did not like her fiancé or any other guy in that sense. Her father was the only guy left in her life. When he died, the whole town felt pity for Miss Emily. The narrator says, “When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad” (Faulkner 821). Miss Emily claimed her father was

In “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner tells the story using several flashbacks to illustrate Emily’s descent into madness by not being able to let go of the past. Initially, the story starts at her funeral. She is shown to be as if she were “bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue” (Faulkner 1). However, it is unknown how she has become this way without thinking about her past. After all, the past is the only time when she is alive both physically and mentally. She comes from the noble family of the Griersons. She and her father have clung onto the mentality that a family’s past determines a person’s worth, so Emily sees that “[n]one of the young men [are] quite good enough [for her]”(3). Even so, she supposedly

The short story, “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, tells of a middle-aged woman named Emily, who struggles to overcome the challenges of isolation in the community she lives in. She might just hold these characteristics, but there is a deeper meaning that Faulkner has given Emily that a great number of people do not discover on their first read. There are countless detailed pieces of figurative language and text that further explain Emily that includes the change of the town, the symbolism of Emily, and a different perspective that was told initially. Emily has way more about her than initially thought of her and that is what makes this story interesting. The short story that Faulkner portrays in “A Rose For Emily” illustrates a deeper meaning through Emily and other characters, bringing something to the table that most stories wouldn't be able to do.

Throughout “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, the story details the journey of Miss. Emily through the perspective of the town as she looks for love and does crazy things along the way. Miss. Emily is consistently searching for her idea of happiness which she believes is love. Mrs. Emily’s cliche American Dream is a husband and family, however, she had an overbearing father who did not allow her to enter into a courtship. The story follows a consistent theme that the power of love can cause one do questionable things. Miss. Emily, the poster child for this theme, wanted so badly to feel loved that when she got rejected she killed a man. She furthers her insanity when she proceeds to sleep next to him for the next few decades

My initial curios reaction to the short story “A rose for Emily” began right off the back when Faulkner states “when Miss Emily Grierson died” (121). This was Faulkner’s way of introducing the reader to the main character Emily. This would leave any reader questioning who exactly is this Emily girl, and how did she die. I realize Emily is the main character not too shortly after and expected to learn more about her in the story. Another episode in the story that sparked my initial curious reaction is when Faulkner explains to the reader that the townspeople thought of Emily as a “tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” (121) The four descriptive words tradition, duty, care, and obligation, all triggered me to wonder why she was such a hassle to the townspeople. This is what Faulkner wanted the reader to pick