Emily Grierson Goes To The Funeral Analysis

This short story is from the view point of the towns people; you will notice a lot in William Faulkner’s writing of A Rose for Emily that it mentions the word “we” or “the town” talking about the people as a whole. From reading this story it seems the townspeople are revisiting old moments that have happened with Miss Emily in the past. It begins by talking about how the whole town went to Miss Emily’s funeral either out of respect or simply out of curiosity since no one had seen the inside of her house in over ten years. When Miss Emily was alive she was viewed as an obligation to the town, she was someone they always had a problem with, but they had to tip toe around to fix any problems involving her. They then go into talking about how

In the beginning, the audience gets a glimpse of the house belonging to Miss Emily. The exterior of the house was beautiful, but aging. When it was first built in the post-civil war era, it was lovely. However, after revolution and change, Miss Emily’s home was the last standing house on the block. This is vital to the story because it paints a picture for the reader’s mind. The interior of the house was dusty and unclean after the change. This demonstrates how cooped up Miss Emily truly is. She never

In the end, with her death, which is where the story begins, Miss Emily is the talk of the town. Not because people truly mourn her, but because people are curious about the life she had lived in secret, in her big house, for all those years. People pitied her, it was as had been left alone in the world and seemed to have wished it that way.

Miss Emily was strange and mysterious woman because she didn’t want to see anyone and she didn’t leave her house so many years passed nobody had been able to visit her,she didn’t want to adjust to the new generation and she wouldn’t communication with them.She is the classic outsider,controlling and limiting the town’s access to her true identify by remaining hidden.the house that shields Emily from the word suggest the mind of the woman who inhabits it.

The very beinning of the story is extraordinary. It begins with the burial of Emily, the residents around her coffin did not feel anything, most of them were curious. There were neither friends nor relatives, nobody who was in mouring for her, only inquirers. The readers can ask, what kind of person was Miss Emily? Why the others did not feel sadness? Perhaps there is a bigger question: what was the reason that nobody went to her house more than ten years (except her slave, Tobe).

“Like Miss Emily it stands “lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay” alone amidst alien surroundings. When the town complains about the smell emanating from the house, the judge equates house and woman: “Will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?” Miss Emily becomes a fallen woman where she lived in a house that had “once been white… set on what had once been our most select street…lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and gasoline pumps an eyesore among eyesores.” The house, like Miss Emily, has fallen from purity and like Miss Emily it is an eyesore, for

In the story is says “She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.” The house was almost like a prison to her she was trapped inside and was never able to leave and find love. Emily dies in the home where she grew up and her dad was always shielding her from the world and was never able to leave and live her own life. As the house has become older and started to decay so has Emily, she became sick and even killed the one man that was in her

Emily has always been protected by the house, and the house was Emily’s safe haven that no one could enter and that she could control. Emily had spent her entire life inside, isolated from society and never truly learning how to be a woman or how to love. The house was a place Emily had felt loved and she wanted to share that love with other people, but Emily’s murdering Homer turned the house from a home to a prison. “It was a big squarish frame house that had once been white…set on what had once been our most select street…only Miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores” (437). The house used to be beautiful and full of love, but once Emily’s father died the house slowly began to die and disintegrate, reflecting Emily’s mind.

Emily's house is where Emily spent most of her life in isolation after the death of her father. Externally, it is considered to be "an eyesore among eyesores"(716) It is amongst cotton gins and that were put up after homes that previously resided on the street had since been moved out. Her house is basically the picture of decay amongst the newer buildings. This could possibly signify Emily's position in the town, or the town's position in the rest of the world. On one hand, the town is small and isolated, but on the other hand, Emily has isolated herself entirely from the rest of the town and seems to cling to her past even more so than the town itself.

In the short story, the town of Jefferson, Mississippi shows sympathy towards Miss Emily Grierson for the loss of her father and her soon to be husband.

The story’s begins at the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson; which is held in her house. The narrator tells us that the town’s women come to the funeral mostly out of curiosity to see what the house looks like, telling us that at one time the Grierson were once a very prominent family in town and, because no one has entered the house in many years. Within this sentence we see that

At first, when I read this story it was a little difficult to read and understand. Because it jumps around in terms of chronology so it's not a linear and not easy to follow in terms of its timeline. However, the narrative structure is very important to understand the character of Emily Grierson because she remains kind of stuck in time. So this is one of the characteristics or key features of the character will be the fact that she doesn't really understand and allow time to the past. She remains kind of stuck in an older traditional way of the old South while the rest of society keep moving forward. Basically, she becomes a sort of representation, almost the symbol of the traditional old Southern ways. Interesting that the townsmen

When we are informed again of Miss Emily’s death at the end of the story we also are now entering her house. After her death the townspeople went into her house

The story begins with the writer describing Miss Emily’s house, which was once nice and luxurious but has become hideous looking. Her house was once apart of the most select in the city, it was now covered with mold. “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street.” (Lines 6-9) With the rebuilding of the Old South her house is left alone instead of making any improvements towards it, therefore emphasizing the habits Miss Emily is refusing to let go of.

The story begins at Miss Emily’s funeral, where the whole town shows up to say goodbye to their past treasure. Emily is a symbol for the past days and her life was a mystery, which is what made her so interesting. The story consists of flashbacks from an unknown narrator and tells the tale of Miss Emily and the towns different perspectives of her. Faulkner’s short story is like a “time machine…[it] is about the past and Miss Emily’s tenacious clinging to the past”(Clausius). However, the fact that the whole town shows up to her funeral means that they too can’t let go of her or the past. The town is almost haunted by Miss Emily; although, the narrator is sympathetic towards her. At her funeral, the narrator notes that Emily has been “. . .a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the