A Rose For Emily Research Paper

Regardless of millions of tragic roles in the literacy history, about eighty years ago, William Faulkner, who was an American Nobel prize laureate in literature, intended to mold the most gorgeous, but miserable one, Miss Emily Grierson. Emily was the tragic protagonist in William’s short story, A Rose for Emily, constantly criticized by the town people because she steadfastly refused to accept the modern ideas and the fluctuations in her life. Despite the rose, which is generally accepted as a symbol of Emily in the story, was eventually dusty and musty, the development of the short story would never generate a repulsive sense toward the rose. Instead, the author utilized his uncanny knack, symbolisms, to ornament and perfume his unique rose in a marvelous way. Or even, the author was seemingly endeavoring to irrigate and fertilize his garden by symbolizing certain objects, characters, and events. And so, he could not only provide profound meanings and deeper cohesiveness of the story to the reader, but
Ostensibly, the rose from the title was to signify the commiseration and the respect of the town people, or, more likely, it was a symbol to Emily, who was growing just like a rose, with several thorns which referred to her psychological bandages; for instance, the helplessness after her father died, the depression against the public opinion, the instantaneous changes in the society, and so forth were constantly unabated stabbing her inside out until she died. Besides, consider that in her funeral, the narrator coincidentally mentioned that “a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray” which could be interpreted as the tortured soul inside Emily ultimately ended up with her death. In this way, readers could authenticate that the rose is a symbol of Emily as well as the thorns are the psychological bandage to