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The writer of a fiction text uses plot, setting and characters to create imagery and influence the reader's response to how the author wishes the reader to perceive a situation. This can be done through many methods, which include detailed descriptions of any settings, detail of weather, characters stereotypical of society and colour association.

I. Thesis Statement: A Rose for Emily is a story of the envy harbored by the citizens in reaction to Miss Emily’s pride, reclusiveness, and heritage.

In both short stories “A Rose for Emily” and “Barn Burning” both written by William Faulkner, the point of view is one of the areas where the two stories bare a similarity. This point of view allows the reader ample time to analyze the various clues provided by the narrator, to discover the final outcome. In addition, the use of clues, or foreshadowing is another similarity found in both stories. Although, the point of view and the use of foreshadowing is similar, the delivery of these elements are not. In ‘’A Rose for Emily” the narrator uses a first-person-plural (community/group) point of view in which those telling the story have a limited perspective compared to “ Barn Burning” where a third-person individual (ten year old boy) point

The writer’s style is his personal choice dependent on the setting, plot and characters means these three aspects of the story will be taken by the author and decided how it will best tell his story. The writer must use his skill with words to develop his style for the story, since the reader is completely at the mercy of the writer waiting for his words to write so he can feel, hear, see, smell and contemplate what is going to happen next. The writer must tell the reader what the world looks like and how it changes, who is in it and where the reader is going. One writer will deal with a genre completely different from another, developing their own style and vision. Often a writer’s style can become so familiar readers they can recognize the author just from reading a passage.

Faulkner continues his southern gothic writing style when the story goes back to an earlier time in Miss Emily’s life. Faulkner

The narrators in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Rose for Emily are both hard to trust. The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" has mixed views on every subject. "The Yellow Wallpaper" had a very confusing narrator. He constantly changes his mind about several subjects. The confusion reminded me a lot of the narrator in "Rose for Emily". The narrator in "Rose for Emily" was confusing because he used views from other people to tell a story.

She was told by the sheriff, that after her father died she did not owe taxes to anyone. She is stuck in time and can't move forward with her life. She was in love with a man named Homer Barron, but he wasn't in love with her. She was so in love with him that she killed him and left his body in the top room and slept in the same bed as his body. She was given complaints about foul smells. William Faulkner illustrated the traits of southern gothic by using unrequited love, disturbed personalities and social class to convey the moral

In “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner exploits symbols to represent the struggles of the people to accept change in society. In this short story, Miss Emily appears to abhor change within her life and appears to never be able to let go of the ways in which she grew up. She appears to be stuck in the timeframe of when the old South reined true, while everyone else is moving on to accept the change and welcome the new South of modernization. The people in the city gossip and pity Miss Emily her unwillingness to move on. Miss Emily’s character is developed from her not wanting to let go of the old South in which she had been around her entire life, and when her father dies, it appears that the old South dies with him, she cannot accept both

In the TV show Private Practice, a spin-off of Grey’s Anatomy, Sam runs some specific tests on one of his very ill patients who was an alcoholic, he doesn’t seem to have anything wrong with him according to all tests that were coming back normal. Until finally they ran a drug test oh him and later discovered that the patient had ingested Coprine. Coprine makes you feel sick when you drink alcohol. It turned out that the mother was poisoning her alcoholic son to get him to stop drinking. A similar concept can be seen in the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. “A Rose for Emily” is about a woman named Emily who turns out to be possibly insane, this conclusion can be made because of the characters, plot, and

William Faulkner is an award winning novelist. He has written novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays and screenplays. Mr. Faulkner graduated from Oxford University, as well as won the two most important awards that anyone can get for writing: Pulitzer Award and the Nobel Prize. A Rose For Emily, is a short story about a Southern women who faces the loss of her father and is criticized by her own town. In William Faulkner’s, A Rose For Emily the author approaches the story with a pathetical appeal, the tone/attitude of the story is set out to be gothic, as well as be a proud a Southerner.

Faulkner embodies Emily as a representation of decay through the descriptions of her house. Emily’s house “that had once been white . . . on what had once been our most select street” (95) is the manifestation of her deterioration and isolation from the community. This contrast between the former grandiose appearance and the deteriorating present state of the house

All men and women are created equal and deserve fair treatment from the opposite sex. However, since the beginning of history, sexual equality has not been a virtue that was closely followed. Men tend to falsely assume that since they are physically more capable than women, they are inherently also more important. Obviously that is not the case and this sexism tends to create a powerful barrier between males and females. Thankfully, modern day culture has vastly diminished the discrimination of women while resorting to more politically correct viewpoints. Though in the early 1900s when “A Rose for Emily” was set, the Deep South still considered women as major inferiorities to men, which is made

William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily,” was written after the civil war and is often considered a piece of Southern Gothic literature (Davis). Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the gothic culture, which typically relies on the use of supernatural, unusual, and ironic events to drive the plot, all of which can be seen as a driving force throughout the story development of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (Davis). Through Faulkner’s ingenious short story, “A Rose for Emily,” he demonstrates the powerful yet internal conflict that comes with change, and the tension it creates between the realms of the past and the future. Upon further analysis, we come to see the story as a representation of the fallen south coupled with societal commentary and a depiction of the characters as spirits from the past stuck in a present time they struggle to come to peaceful terms with. We can see the powerful message Faulkner creates illustrated throughout his use of symbolism, his protagonist Emily, the community that surrounds her, and the incongruent timeline of events he depicts throughout the telling of his story.

“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.

In the eyes of the folks who lived in Jefferson, Mississippi, Miss Emily Grierson was a very eccentric woman. She kept to herself, only employed one servant in her house, and was a shut in for the last thirty years of her life. Even before she became a recluse, the townspeople found her odd because of how she acted towards them. Emily was considered eccentric because she did things no normal woman of her station would do, and yet she still tries to hang on to her traditional ways in fear of change. Renee Curry, author of “Gender and authorial limitation in Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily,’” suggests that “Faulkner designs this narrative position as a reflection of his own stance toward patriarchal and societal structures and