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    damaging the individual and others. Many young teenagers and young adults continue to live their day to day life with untreated mental illnesses. In “A Rose for Emily,” written by William Faulkner demonstrates the lack of support from a community towards Emily Grierson and the results of her untreated mental illness that lead her to develop schizophrenia. Emily Grierson is a character who is under the control and manipulation of her father.

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    Cited Abrams, A.H. “A Glossary of Literary Terms/Seventh Edition”. Heinle & Heinle USA, Thomson Learning Inc. 1999. Bronte, Charlotte. “Jane Eyre” Signet Classic USA, Penguin Books Ltd. 1960 Falkner, William. “A Rose for Emily”. In W. Kalaidjian, J. Roof & S.Watt (Eds.), Understanding Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing (pp.373-380). New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. Sedgwick, Eve, Kosofsky. “The Coherence of Gothic Conventions”. Rev. ed. New

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    analysis. The interpretation of these elements, the making of meaning out of them, then depends on the context or method of interpretation we apply to them. Thus we can easily see why a signifying elementlike the figure of the father in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"-has so many different meanings. Do we interpret him historically as a metaphor of Southern manhood?

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    Emily Grierson Conflict

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    In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the protagonist, Emily was a young lady who lived in a companionless individuality. Within of the story there were several things that caused her to be lonely throughout her whole life. Emily’s conflict is with the society. Her dad was one of the main problems, or so I’ll say a disturbance for her. He always wanted her to live the lonely life and give all her attention to him and only him. Once the passing of her father, she didn’t want help from anyone

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    Wallpaper” which was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which gives the point of view of a man through a woman, and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, told from the point of view a man. In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” the reader is able to see how women are treated in this time period when something occurs to be wrong with them. While in the story, “A Rose for Emily”

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    The reality of society affects their desire toward dreams. But not every dream are the same and can come true. There are times when something hard or even unexpected occurs, everything that they have been worked for can halt. In the story "A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner, he uses imagery of a daughter with a dream of obtaining true love to describe the obstacles, whether physical or emotional and aspect of time, that can cause achieving a dream more difficult or even appear to be impossible

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    Eulogy For Emily

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    Miss Emily started to live with memories of her late father ,one day she looks out of the window of her imaginary world and sees something that she might like about the change or the new south. The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks .Along with the construction company ,riggers and mules and machinery a foreman also comes as a fresh hope of life for Emily, his name is Homer Barron, a Northern laborer symbolized development or change. Homer is “a Yankee- a big, dark,

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    voices be heard nonchalantly. These select stories “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner; “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty; and “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Gilman all have leading female characters that exemplify the characteristic of perseverance within each woman's predicament. In 1929, William Faulkner wrote the short story, “A Rose for Emily,” which was notorious for its flabbergasting closure. In this story, Emily Grierson has a multitude of events that occur throughout

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    Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” narrates the life of Emily Grierson as seen by the villagers. Controlled by her father and her family background, Emily is a woman deprived of the opportunity to live life at its fullest and experience human passions such as love. Furthermore, she lacks a “sense of self” that causes her confusion and makes it difficult for her to form relationships. Due to the lack of identity and isolation presented all throughout her life, Emily suffers from psychological

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    Do 
obstacles 
in someone’s 
life
 change 
their 
passions?
 If 
something
 
 unexpected 
occurs,
 does 
one 
turn 
his
 or 
her 
back
 on 
all
 that 
has 
been 
worked 
for? 
In
 an
 American
 society,
 there
 is
 an
 idea
 of
 a
 dream.
 Most
 people
 have
 dreams
 that
 differ 
from 
one
 another. 
Dreams
 are 
not 
limited 
only 
to 
society. 
Countless 
numbers
 of
 times
 in
 American
 literature,
 there
 are
 moments
 when
 an
 obstacle
 slows
 or
 possibly
 halts
 progression.
 Dreams
 can


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