A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner: Literary Analysis

Two Different Worlds

What people on the outside of a situation perceive and what truly goes on behind closed doors can be two completely different worlds. Public and private lives no matter how interesting or enviable have some kind of flaw. The prefect atomic family does not truly exist. Ones psychic can be irrevocably altered because of this one flaw. I William Faulkner's, A Rose for Emily, He uses an odd chronological order to show there is always a dark cloud in a perfect would. Faulkner also shows through vivid imagery and symbolism that Emily is a prisoner of two worlds, the public and private life. This shows how poor Emily is never able to cope fully with either one because she was never shown how. Emily was looked upon in public
That man ran off every person who would try to court Miss. Emily. She was basically not aloud to use her mind unless she was told to do so. Because of this and her being secluded away from everybody she did not really have the social skills to carry on in every day life. Well after her father died, she had a chance to get out on her own. That is when she met a Yankee man named Homer Barron. This was kind of a shock to the town's people. When they saw them in public they started thinking that they were going to get married some time. Then comes the twist, what could be looked at as slight mental illness or an actual critter problem, Emily went to the store and bought some poison. She didn't say what is was for when asked, but all the people knew that she bought arsenic. This of course spawned more gossip of how she was going to kill herself and so on. The sad thing was is they really hoped she
But, a couple weeks later he was spotted being let into Miss. Emily's kitchen door. That was the last time they saw him. The next time they saw Emily she had changed over a long time, she had gotten old, gray-haired and a little heftier. The town's people just figured that her seclusion was what was left in her from when her father had passed.
Then one day she finally died in one of the broken down house's bottom level rooms. After she was buried the people whom all these years had watched Miss. Emily grow old in the house she grew up in got to see what really happened in that home. They walked into the room that apparently had not been seen in quite some time,
"A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie every where upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man's toilet things back with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was