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    In many ways A Rose for Emily is an eerie tale portraying the love between Emily Grierson and Homer Barron. The story begins with explaining the odd characteristics Emily portrays throughout her father’s death. While denial is inevitable, not letting authorities pick up a body due to complete denial made her a talking sensation to the townspeople. Emily was aloof and private towards her emotions and didn’t think twice over her actions. Harron, an outsider as well, worked over construction in her

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    From the title, “A Rose for Emily,” the reader will most likely go into this short story thinking that Emily Grierson is the main character (protagonist). The problem with this thought is a protagonist is the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. The protagonist also tends to be round character who we probably have some understanding of their thoughts, feelings, and motivations, and they may also change over the course of the story. Emily’s

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    done something and not giveing a poppycock what ever happend? Or like impacted your little sibling and then you think nothing happened? Well, in the end they just don't ever care about any thing that ever happens. Like in the short story of "A Rose For Emily" what the woman in this story did. To this man which in the end was all of the towns folk fault and they are the ones who caused the death of an innocent man. There are three examples that describes the death of Homer Barron are: uncompromising

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    The short story, “A Rose for Emily,” written in 1931 by William Faulkner is about a girl named Miss Emily Grierson in a Southern storyline that is told by multiple narrators for the entire town of Jefferson. The storyline takes us into the death of Miss Emily and her life as an impoverished and lonely woman whose townspeople discovers the truth about her in interest once they finally enter her house. The beginning of the story William Faulkner puts us in the Old south and after the Civil War era

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    “A Rose for Emily” is quite a messed up story, but has my interest. A theme in the story would be forgiveness and some compassion towards a murder A.K.A Emily Grierson. The local townspeople are very curious about Emily. Because she is quite the mysterious lady in town who keeps to herself, and you only hear about her from rumors. Townspeople are all intrigued in every little thing she does. But why does no one notice that she's a murder? Emily in the story is talked about in her local town, when

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    Hidden Secrets William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” concentrates on Emily Grierson, an old southern woman who is set in her ways as the town Jefferson progresses around her. The story continues by comparing Emily when she was a young lady to the woman she became. Faulkner explores the secret life of Emily, who is the center of the town’s gossip and unearths Emily’s past, and her hidden secrets. Through Faulkner’s Southern Gothic style of writing he illustrates a time, which would be otherwise

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    appear to a townsperson or viewer. 2) What does the title of the story suggest about the townspeople’s feelings toward Miss Emily? Why do they feel this way about her? (Or: What does she represent to them?) Is there anything ironic about their feelings? The title of the story suggests that the townspeople have some sort of caring feeling

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    In his short story A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner portrays his main character Emily Grierson as an older woman who has isolated herself from society and is trapped in a world full of delusions. Due to Ms. Grierson’s isolation, her mental state of mind has caused her to make unthinkable decisions for the sake of her sanity. Throughout the story Faulkner uses the literary elements of setting, point of view, and symbolism to depict the effect that isolation had on Emily Grierson’s psychological

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    The point of view given by William Faulkner in his story “A Rose for Emily,” was from the prospective of the town which offers an interesting insight into the story that would not be able to be accomplished through other points of views. Seeing as the townspeople are the narrator, Faulkner was able to add a level of mystery and uncertainty to the telling of the story. The reader is able to learn of the events occurring in the story only through the reports from the townspeople which prevents the

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    Discussion Board#2 Based on the Marxist Theory, we can apply the following from the story, “A Rose for Emily”. First off, we observe Emily’s social class and thereafter. The family home – a big, white squarish frame with cupolas, spirals and scrolled balconies, set on the “most established” of streets. She also had a manservant, Tobe who is of the depressed stratified status, from the old south, waiting on her until the very end. She was even teaching china painting to the middle or wealthiest of

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