The Rose For Emily Comparison

The short story, “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, tells of a middle-aged woman named Emily, who struggles to overcome the challenges of isolation in the community she lives in. She might just hold these characteristics, but there is a deeper meaning that Faulkner has given Emily that a great number of people do not discover on their first read. There are countless detailed pieces of figurative language and text that further explain Emily that includes the change of the town, the symbolism of Emily was told from a different perspective that was seen initially. Emily has way more about her, between the lines, that makes this story more interesting. The short story that Faulkner portrays in “A Rose For Emily” illustrates a sense of loneliness

In this paper, I will be comparing and contrasting three works that we have studied this semester. I will be writing about A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill, and The Open Boat by Stephen Crane. All of these authors’ stories use setting to encompass the idea of freedom. Each author has a different perspective on liberty and they all express it differently through their writing. In each story the main character is trapped, either literally or metaphorically. They can all achieve freedom from their situations, but there are obstacles that stop them from reaching their goal. In A Rose for Emily, the main character is trapped in her house. In The Hairy Ape, the main character is stuck in

The two short stories “ A Rose for Emily” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” are two very similar but at the same time very different. The main characters Emily Grierson, from William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", and the narrator, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper," are both in the same boat that many women were placed in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s. Both of these two stories were written in a generation that women were looked downed upon and made to feel less important than males. I feel these two stores are similar in terms of where women stood in society at that time and how society affected emotional downfalls in both of these main characters. These women are both the protagonists of each of those two stories who both go from being extremely depressed and lonely to absolutely insane. However, these stories are written in totally different point of views which creates two totally different outlooks. “A rose for Emily “is written in third person while “Yellow Wallpaper” is written in first person. Also, the characters are different in terms of that they have two completely different personalities. The two authors ideas in both of these stories focus on how women are looked down upon in different situations and generations in society at that time of history.

Matt in “Killings” by Andre Dubus and Emily in “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner are both the protagonists of their stories, who end up committing murder by the end. When you hear about one human killing another, you don’t usually feel sorry for the offender. What could possibly make it okay to take another’s life? Both Emily and Matt killed out of love, but I feel more sympathy for Matt because he is a grieving father, and actually feels remorse for his actions unlike Emily.

She again makes a reference to another Black child when she says that one day Mr. Edgar left the watermelon at the door and a Negro child ate it thinking that the initials E.A.T. meant to actually eat it (188). In both cases, they made references to Negroes possibly indicating that they do not respect them. In these stories, they are both similar to each other in a way in these circumstances.

In the short stories “A Rose For Emily,” by William Faulkner and “The Possibility of Evil,” by Shirley Jackson both authors create similar characters and settings that illustrate daring images of evil. Both Emily Grierson and Adela Strangeworth are women who share similar characteristics yet pose completely different motives. Their stories take place in close-knit towns, which play essential roles in their motives for evil. Emily Grierson and Adela Strangeworth demonstrate similarities and differences that develop their actions, revealing the possibility of evil within them.

While one of the most traditional interpretations of “A Rose for Emily” is the variety of meanings for the “rose” presented in the title and how the “rose” fits in with the story. Laura Getty states in her article many varied perspectives that many could ponder when identifying what the “rose” stands for. She states many possible theories that depict what the “rose” means, including theories of other writers that help support her own theory and also that adds another way that most might not consider at first. Most of the interpretations of the rose are all focused on the “internal elements” (Getty 231) rather than the actual rose itself. Getty theorizes about certain characters, buildings, anything that symbolizes a rose in the story as

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.

In A Rose for Emily, the narrator, who is the voice of the town, uses stories to tell the story of Emily's life. These stories are as observed by the towns people around her. This is used to go beyond time, from the time before Emily's death, to the time near her father's death, and so on. Since the story is being told through the towns eyes it persuades the readers to make assumptions, like that of the town peoples. For example, when the narrator writes about the smell coming from the house, we are lead to believe from the major “probably just a snake or rat that nigger killed in the yard.” (pg.100; pt I). Like the town, the reader does not discover that the source of the smell is her dearest Mr. Barron’s dead body until the last paragraph of the story when the body is revealed.

In “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner uses symbolism, imagery, simile and tone. Faulkner uses these elements to lead his characters to an epiphany of letting go of out-dated traditions and customs. The resistance to change and loneliness are prominent themes within “A Rose for Emily”. Faulkner uses “A Rose for Emily” to caution his readers that things are not always what they appear to be.

The story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner would be drastically different if it was written from the point of view of Miss Emily. Her intentions and thoughts would be more pronounced, and because of this, the ending of the story may not come as such a shock. In addition, Miss Emily would be less distanced from the audience, and they would be able to understand her character in a way that the townspeople could not. Miss Emily being the narrator would immensely change the reader’s perception of the story’s ending and her character.

The story begins with the death of Miss Emily, an old, ugly and disgusting woman who, in addition to that, hid herself in her house for years. Throughout the text you can completely imagine how Miss Emily and her house would be in that time. After read and seen the movie adaptation of “A Rose for Emily”, I notice some contrasting details between the two ways the story was told, such as, in the book I could completely visualize Miss’s Emily house would be, but the image I picture was completely different as the one shown in the movie.

Women were not a man’s equal, throughout history. Especially in the early 20th century women were not in the same arena as men. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines “trifle” as something of “little value, substance, or importance,” (www.merriam-webster.com) which is the way women are seen in both William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily” and Susan Glaspell’s one-act play, Trifles. Both authors use of style and settings are different, but their theme is the same. Faulkner and Glaspell were born and wrote in approximately the same era, America’s late 19th and early 20th centuries. Glaspell, the author of Trifles, is from the northern United States and uses a lower class, uneducated vernacular of that area; whereas, “A Rose for Emily” is written in an eloquent upper-class English tone, by Faulkner who was from the south. Faulkner metaphorically and symbolically describes the personality, life, and death of the main character, Ms. Emily Grierson, in the murder- mystery surrounding her. Glaspell’s murder -mystery Trifles also surrounds the life and death of the main character, Mrs. Wright, and her husband. These writings, while representing opposite ends of the socio-economic spectrum, outline the main characters as isolated and lonely, because of social class, the time in history, and the men did not respect femininity.

The tale of the life and death of Emily Grierson helps to expose the underlying circumstances of social and cultural heritage and the lost realities that people live. Both the film and the book provide a stirring account of her relationship with the community and how she was viewed by the people around her. Isolation is a constant theme for both literacies. The underlying tragedy of her life is highlighted at the end, as the corpse of her only lover is found to have been one of her most important possessions. Emily’s wicked attraction to corpses helps to expose the increasingly dark and gloomy sense of behavior that the text attempts to convey. The direction of the story is an important

The short stories “A Rose for Emily” and “The Story of an Hour” are about two women with some similarities and differences. These two women have comparable ideas and they also live in the same society. In this time period they live in a world that was decrepit, and very controlling, and they had to show a great deal of respect to the men of the household. In this time period the woman’s expectations were to clean, cook, and take care of the children and whatever else chores they had to accomplish. Louise character tries to display happiness throughout the story about being free and triumphant, but Emily is the complete opposite. The author, Kate Chopin focuses more on the freedom a woman does not have, and author Faulkner’s main purpose is to show what a woman would go through to keep herself happy.