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    about how an old man is murdered because of his evil vulture eye. “A Rose for Emily” is about how an old woman poisoned her lover to keep him from leaving. “The Lottery” is about how this town has a drawing to see who will be the sacrifice to the crops. Horror is developed in “The Tell Tale Heart,” “A Rose for Emily,” and “The Lottery” with many elements of horror. First, horror is developed in “The Tell Tale Heart” by the insanity of the narrator. The narrator believes he is a sane person. He contradicted

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    Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, Miss Emily Grierson was a mysterious and very secluded woman. Jefferson County gave residents the chance to witness the person behind Emily Grierson and her terrifying household. Once Miss Emily died, her house was opened for the public to investigate. Emily Grierson had to be the prime specimen for being psychotic. Acquiring carcasses and receiving the genes from one mentally ill aunt, were just to reasons for her synopsis. Trying to uncover what underlies Emily Grierson

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    Allen Poe and Stephen King are known for their creepy writings, William Faulkner has achieved a level of disturbing that is hardly reached in short stories. A Rose for Emily is a story that shows how the insanity of one woman is able to shock an entire town, even in death. When first reading A Rose for Emily, anyone can see how twisted Emily Grierson is. Not only for the fact that she was sleeping in the same bed as a corpse, but because this was not the first time that she had kept a dead body in

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    The Innocence of Emily William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” starts out at Emily’s funeral and then goes onto a story about taxes, which Miss Emily is exempt from paying for life by Colonel Sartoris. During her life, Miss Emily’s father kept her isolated and ran off any potential suitors with a horsewhip. When her father died, Miss Emily refused to acknowledge the fact for three days. Soon after, Miss Emily met and started dating Homer Barron, “a northerner and a day laborer.” The town goes from

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    morose wife. In “A Rose for Emily” Emily is struggling with keeping a tradition in her family and is also and also distressed. Both women deal with the struggles of their husbands who do not give them attention or treat them well. They both show similarities in their qualities of life. In William Faulkner's, “A Rose for Emily” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” both have female characters who have to endure and overcome struggles of loneliness, isolation, insanity, and depression

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    anyone and have them taken away from me as well. The protagonist, Emily Grierson, in the short story “A Rose for Emily,” has shut everyone out of her life due to the death of her loved one, just as I did. Crystal’s essay, “One for us…” describes how Grierson’s community would not accept her private life, and they turn her personal life into a public conversation. According to Willow D. Crystal, William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” suggests the relationship between private and public can have an

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    In the story, “A Rose for Emily “, Emily possess some strange behavior that may cause suspicion to rise that she may obtain a disorder causing her to act in these strange ways. Over the course of the story, Miss Emily’s erratic and idiosyncratic behavior becomes outright bizarre, and the reader is left wondering how to explain the fact that Miss Emily has spent years living and sleeping with the corpse of a human. Readers may look at her behavior, her behavior in action, and the possible disorders

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    Theme of Death in William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a tragic tale of a Southern aristocrat, Miss Emily Grierson, who is the subject of a town's obsession.  The narrator, a member of the town, tells the story of what transpires in a decaying old Southern house that is always under the watchful eye of the townspeople.  They witness Miss Emily's life, her father's death, her turn to insanity and the death of both her and her lover.  The theme

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    Miss Emily is Diagnosed The short story, ‘’A Rose for Emily,’’ was published in 1930, which was the period of time where a lot of work written were left unclear at the ending. With this being said, many of the audience who read these type of work always made their own conclusions without the author really stating what had happened in their work. This was an easier way that authors found to sell their work. ‘’A Rose for Emily’’ by William Faulkner was categorized as one of those type of work. The

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    The Structure of A Rose for Emily   William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a story that uses flashbacks to foreshadow a surprise ending. The story begins with the death of a prominent old woman, Emily, and finishes with the startling discovery that Emily as been sleeping with the corpse of her lover, whom she murdered, for the past forty years. The middle of the story is told in flashbacks by a narrator who seems to represent the collective memory of an entire town. Within these flashbacks

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