A Rose for Emily

“A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner, is a story of Miss Emily Grierson, a woman who was born into a wealthy family in the town of Jefferson. She grew up and lived in a huge Victorian home with servants. After the Civil War, it seems that her family’s wealth started to diminish but the Grierson’s were still trapped in the past of their family’s wealth. Emily Grierson’s past and present life is being recalled by a narrator who expresses the attitudes and ideas of the community. The narrator uses phrases like “We knew”, “We said”, and “We believed” to show the towns involvement. The townspeople pity Miss Emily and look at her as “fallen monument.

     The narrator, a random townsperson, illustrates very well the awe and fear the town held for Miss Emily. To them, she portrayed everything that they wished they could be, and all that they were glad not to be. They held a twisted form of respect for her. When she dies, she is referred to as a "fallen monument" whom the men went to see out of a "respectful affection," much like that of your child's pet, who you go through the funeral for, but will never really understand. The women of the town went "mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one…had seen in at least ten years." They had always wondered what she was like, but never really found out. It was not their place to speak with her, for she was a Grierson, albeit a fallen one. Miss Emily was aware of this class distinction, refusing to receive the townswomen into her home after her father's death. Miss Emily had to maintain her image of propriety that had been placed

A Rose for Emily is a story that deals with a women’s sentimental illness caused by isolation. Emily Grierson looses her moral compass, and her trace of reality, her inability to be loved, her desire to be considered as someone important, was never accomplished. The author shows plans of development; using characterization, symbolism, and setting. This is a very symbolic and animatic story. William Faulkner points out his views of empathy towards Emily in the story when he illustrates that Emily had an emotional abusive upbringing with her father. In addition, we see the historical fiction and setting which reflects the racist times that was given in the past. A Rose of Emily is also a symbol of a gothic, and horror

The story follows the life and death of Emily Grierson through flashback and outside perspective; it is through the thoughts of the other entity -the collective identity of the town- that the theme of respect for the past shines. From almost the beginning, the reader is given this sense of generational divide among the townsfolk; the older people wish to enable Emily’s lack of tax payment out of respect for her and the arrangement made up by Colonel Sartoris while the younger want her to pay said taxes, “when the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little

The most important thing in the story “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner is the symbolic. Emily Grierson grows up in the environment that lacks of society and courtship because of her father. Emily’s life is symbolic of lacking communicate, fear of death. And Emily’s home is the symbolic of her past as well.

The men admired her and the women talked about her. She was Jefferson’s modern day celebrity in a sense. And like any other celebrity she was look at to set an example, as well as to serve as a topic of gossip. Dating Homer, a northerner, of course was not normal in the southern tradition nor would have it been pleasing to the Grierson family image. As Emily and Homer were continued to be seen in public, the gossip continued. The women of Jefferson were somewhat disgusted with their relationship. They sent the minister to guide Emily, which did not work. The next step was to call on the Grierson relatives that resided in Alabama. The Grierson family was considered the upper class of the town of Jefferson. Homer, a “Yankee” from the north, would be displeasing to the family’s name. Emily and her father lived on a “select street” as Faulkner described. The Grierson’s were looked down upon, almost hated for the way they thought about their status as upper class, the town believed “that the Griersons held themselves for a little too high for what they really were.” Faulkner never included what exactly happen when Emily’s relatives came to visit. The relatives were only described to be “even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been”. Scherting came to a conclusion that “it was logical to assume

The story is set around 1861-1933 in Jefferson. During this period, America was offered fresh perspectives and ideas that posed the danger of change to how Americans carried their lives. But, females were related to in a similar manner. They were required to adhere to stern stereotypes that society imposed. The tiny town of Jefferson is also full of individuals that have long ancestry to the Deep South’s culture and history. Therefore, people are cohesive in their attitudes, views, reasoning, and values. These aspects are important in the story since Emily Grierson was from the Deep South and the occurrences during this era had implications on her life and choices. Also, the story’s setting influences the themes and characters. For instance, Miss Emily was tied to her dad and his way of life in the earlier parts of Emily’s life. Emily is figuratively imprisoned within a small universe developed by her father and is nearly imprisoned in her real property, whereas the external world sought growth and change. The theme of death is also depicted early in the story with Emily’s funeral developing the story and subsequently, her home gets linked with disturbing emotions of death and decomposition. Similarly, the house plays a key role in explaining the shifting period depicted in the entire story, suggests how Miss Emily and her family appeared reluctant to embrace change despite the immediate

     Throughout this story, the overbearing presence of Emily Grierson’s father is perhaps the greatest influence on her behavior. The story describes how Miss Emily’s father rejected her suitors by standing in front of her and aggressively clutching a horsewhip whenever the young men came to call. Without her fathers influence and overprotective behavior it is likely that Emily would have made one of her suitors her husband when she was still of suitable marrying age for that time period.

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner takes place in Jefferson, Mississippi around the 1860’s to 1930’s. Around this time there were slaves being freed, but being in the south with a deep southern mentality, you can see that some were refusing to let their slaves go. Miss Emily is a very good representation of fighting change. She is very stuck in her ways and delusional about change. She represents the struggle between moving from the past to the future. Miss Emily is stuck in a time where she has done things the same for many years, but is being subjected to change. Faulkner symbolizes this by showing that Miss Emily does not want to put up a mailbox or pay taxes. It even takes her hair forever to change from brown to grey. He is showing

In a small town one of the unwritten rules seems to be that you tend to know everyone in it. This is true in any small town in America. Faulkner begins his tale (via narrator of which we never know the identity) of Miss Emily Grierson’s home with a vivid description of where the events take place and the townspeople 's reaction.

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Published in 1931, “A Rose for Emily”, is a short story written by William Faulkner. The story is set around 1894 in the Southern part of the United States. This story describes the life of Miss Emily Grierson. When the mayor had brought Miss Emily taxes, she told them that she had no taxes in Jefferson. Then the story changes to thirty years before when the townspeople were trying to tell Miss Emily about the smell of her house. Then she had gotten sick, and wasn’t seen for a long time, until she was seen with Homer Barron. Eventually, Homer Barron was never seen again, and neither was Miss Emily except inside her house windows. When Miss Emily died they went into her house and found a body that had been there for sometime. This story is

Born in Oxford, Mississippi in 1897, Faulkner was certainly subjected to the South in its transformative state. This transformation, as a result of the civil war, would concern moving past the South’s old way and moving forward and rebuilding in order to improve the state. In, “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner explores the theme of Old South versus a new South through the main character of the short story, Emily. This exploration is not quite so upfront and obvious, seeing as the story focuses on Emily’s mental state, as well as a back story to Emily’s gothic relationship with the dead Homer Baron. Beyond that, Emily can be thought of as a manifestation or a symbol of the Old South. More specifically, she can be thought of as a sort of canvas in which Faulkner packs in all the tradition, values and customs of the Old South. Firstly, she keeps up with old traditions of the South and rejects any modern innovation. For example, she gets into the tradition of china

In “A Rose for Emily”, the townspeople have treated Emily as though she were a commodity that could be viewed and critiqued. Their failure to help Emily holds them responsible for the aftermath, because if they had forced her to pay her taxes, treated her like she was a part of the town, and put her before their reputation, the outcome of this Southern gothic would be entirely different.

Sometimes she had wondered if the personality of this remarkable relative had not been a figment of her father's imagination, long pondered, and reconstructed out of half-forgotten material. But this letter of hers that now lay on the breakfast table was admirable in character. There was something of condescension and intolerance expressed in the very restraint of its tone. She had written a kindly letter, but the kindliness had an air of pity. It was all consistent enough with what her father had told her.