Chronological Order In A Rose For Emily
Analysis of Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily
In “A Rose for Emily," written by William Faulkner’s. The narrator of this story has chosen to tell us it out of chronological order. As you start this story you get the feeling that you can relate it to a move. They start us off with an action scene first to grab your attention. Then it moves to taking us back to how it all began working its way back to the main point that had grabbed you attention in the first place. “A Rose for Emily” is broken in to five different stages. If the narrator had written this story in a different order, then we would have had a whole different meaning behind it. As we glance at the entail plot of the story, the time and the chronological shifts, a few of our charters, …show more content…
and last but certainly not least a little about the narrator. To better understand this story lets break it down into the five different stages. Beginning this story, it has been brought to the attention of Miss Emily’s death. Which we know that the entire town had attended her funeral. We quickly learned that Emily was a loner because no one in her town “had seen in at least ten years”. (299) Understanding that Emily’s father had passed away too. He had a lot of money which informed us that Miss Emily at one point had a nice house. After the passing of Emily’s father, the town mayor had suspended her from having to pay taxes. With the town getting new leaders and changing they believed that Emily needed to return to making payment on her own taxes. Emily had informed them that they needed to speak with Colonel Sartoris for she had no taxes in Jefferson. The nice house that Emily had once lived in has now changed to not being a nice house anymore. Her house was the last of the old houses left on the street as “the colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.”(300) Starting to see another part of Emily’s life “She vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their father’s thirty years before.”(301) Emily threw out the new leaders for tell her she had to start paying taxes which also informs us that she had done the same thing when the town folk had started complaining the she had smells coming from her place.
As the town couldn’t forget that Emily’s aunt “had gone completely crazy at last, believe that he Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they were.”(302) Emily’s father had driven off the many suitors for her as he thought none of them were good enough to be with her. The town’s people had felt sorry for her. Did Emily go crazy? As Emily had denied that her father had passed away she would not give up his body for a total of three days. The town folk all believed that she had gone crazy after that as they went to give her their condolences for her father passing. “In the summer after her father’s death” (302) sidewalk contractor began to redo them. Emily had ended up meeting the foreman Homer Barron. People in the town never thought Mr. Barron was good enough for Emily and they felt she was letting her name down. They had “began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in a yellow-wheeled buggy.”(302) Emily had made the decision that she need to purchase arsenic as she realizes her reputation was getting further compromised. As the town realized that Emily had purchased arsenic they started to get afraid of what she would …show more content…
do and they called in her cousins from another to state to come. After the cousins had decided to make their way back home as Mr. Barron who had vanished until this time had been seen at Emily’s door at dusk. “That was the last we saw of Homer Barron.”(304) The cousins had been the last to see Emily on the streets. Emily has now “grown fat and her hair was turning grey” (305) as Emily no longer leaves her house. She has closed the top floor of her house. At the age of seventy-four Emily had passed away The town folk would occasionally get a glimpse of her but other than that she was never heard from again until she had died. Moving into our final stage we finally get an understanding of what happen after Emily had passed. The upstairs of Emily house that she had sealed up was not opened for forty years. When they did open it they could understand that she loved him so much as they found “a long strand of gray hair on the pillow”. “A Rose for Emily” shows us so multiple time spans stretched throughout multiple decades.
We see Emily’s life through multiple series of flashbacks. Emily was introduced to us by her funeral and then taking us back to her past. Approaching the end we realized the even Emily’s funeral is a flashback. Leading us to the undoing of the upstairs bedroom. Emily is portrayed to us as a little girl, to her father chasing off suitor, to an old woman, and to her death at the age of seventy four. This has given us the feeling of the past and present coexisting as to how they have influenced each other. All of this goes to show that Emily was always committed regardless of the
past. This story has multiple characters but Emily Grierson is our main character. Emily is seen as a young vibrant woman who was left alone after her father had passed away leaving her devastated. As her father had rejected multiple suitors, she had fallen for Homer Barron. The town folk pitied Emily. Homer Barron had been poisoned and sealed upstairs in Emily’s house as she had fallen for him. Now, Barron was a foreman who fell for Emily. Sundays is when Emily and Barron would be seen going on buggy rides. In the townspeople eyes Barron was just a porr man who was not good enough to be with Emily. Stevens was the mayor and judge of Jefferson. Stevens wanted to respect Emily’s pride as he was having to handle the complaints for all the townspeople about Emily’s property. Mr. Grierson was Emily’s father who even after his death still have a great hold on his daughter Emily. Mr. Grierson feared if Emily would marry he would not be able to keep his control. He had a big influence on the town and most would see him as a man who was very controlling. I believe that the narrator is wanting us to understand the story form the view of the town’s people. You can see that we multiple question as to how well did the narrator know Emily. What are the changes that our narrator may be one of the suitor that Emily’s father scared away or perhaps maybe ever her older servant? Our narrator was very judgmental and he just portrayed himself as a townsperson. Now, thought he is very good at hiding how he wanted to be portrayed it kind of leads us to believe that maybe he knows just a little too much to just be a town’s person. I feel he focused on the townspeople perspective to show us how much he cared for her and how they had been treating her. For a story with multiple changing parts and not following in the exact order could be a little hard to follow at first. As we get pulled into many emotions we still have a mystery that has kept us wanting to read more. Looking back at the glance of the entail plot, the time and the chronological shifts, a few of our charters, and last but certainly not least a little about the narrator we have been kept on our toes and wanting to read more. This story was a great read. I got lost a few times while reading it but each time understanding more and more and feeling all the different emotions that where put into this one story.
Works Cited
Faulkner, William “A Rose for Emily.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. 11th edition. Kelly J. Mays, Ed. New York: Norton, 2014. 617. Print.
Getty. Laura J. “Faulkner’s Rose for Emily.” Explicator 63. 4 (2005): 230-234. Academic Search Complete. Mon. 21 Nov. 2016.
Annotated Bibliography
Faulkner, William “A Rose for Emily.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. 11th edition. Kelly J. Mays, Ed. New York: Norton, 2014. 617. Print.
This is the primary source for Essay 2 (William)
Getty, Laura J. “Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily.” The Explicator 63. 4 (2005): 230-234. Academic Search Complete. Web 21 Nov. 2016
This article the “Rose” represents secrecy: the confidential relationship between the author and his charters, will all of the privilege information withheld. (Getty) With this article it helps me with the theory that I have come up. I feel that it helps prove that we truly have no clue who the narrator is and how the story is broken down into parts but not in any set order. This is a trusted site that was found in the literary database Academic Search.
Writing Process Summation
I have chosen this story because I felt that it grabbed my attention. I felt as if I was watching a movie, but really I was reading. It had multiple feelings and emotions, yet you were still able to focuses on who the story was mainly about. Understanding this story was really kind of hard until I re-read it several times. For me to truly understand what it met I have to read some reviews on it. The reviews really helped me understand all the parts that didn’t make any sense. The reviews really help me grasp what was being said on the parts that didn’t click but it also pointed out to me that on some of the other parts I was on track. I wanted this essay to focus on the entail plot of the story, the time and the chronological shifts, a few of our charters, and last but certainly not least a little about the narrator. I made a list of thing that I needed to do as I was writing this and reading the story. It seems that every time I re-read my essay I find multiple things I need to change or take out or just change a few of the words. I had to walk away several times while writing this to re-think my thoughts and clear my head. While reading I wrote down main points that I felt I could use for my outline as I was reading that I could use to focus my essay on. By reading my essay I hope that I have help you better under this story. Maybe from reading this essay you can say that you learned something new they maybe you missed yourself while reading it and now you go back and re-read it, and now it makes even more sense. It amazes me how every person will get something totally different each time they read something.
In “A Rose for Emily," written by William Faulkner’s. The narrator of this story has chosen to tell us it out of chronological order. As you start this story you get the feeling that you can relate it to a move. They start us off with an action scene first to grab your attention. Then it moves to taking us back to how it all began working its way back to the main point that had grabbed you attention in the first place. “A Rose for Emily” is broken in to five different stages. If the narrator had written this story in a different order, then we would have had a whole different meaning behind it. As we glance at the entail plot of the story, the time and the chronological shifts, a few of our charters, …show more content…
and last but certainly not least a little about the narrator. To better understand this story lets break it down into the five different stages. Beginning this story, it has been brought to the attention of Miss Emily’s death. Which we know that the entire town had attended her funeral. We quickly learned that Emily was a loner because no one in her town “had seen in at least ten years”. (299) Understanding that Emily’s father had passed away too. He had a lot of money which informed us that Miss Emily at one point had a nice house. After the passing of Emily’s father, the town mayor had suspended her from having to pay taxes. With the town getting new leaders and changing they believed that Emily needed to return to making payment on her own taxes. Emily had informed them that they needed to speak with Colonel Sartoris for she had no taxes in Jefferson. The nice house that Emily had once lived in has now changed to not being a nice house anymore. Her house was the last of the old houses left on the street as “the colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.”(300) Starting to see another part of Emily’s life “She vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their father’s thirty years before.”(301) Emily threw out the new leaders for tell her she had to start paying taxes which also informs us that she had done the same thing when the town folk had started complaining the she had smells coming from her place.
As the town couldn’t forget that Emily’s aunt “had gone completely crazy at last, believe that he Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they were.”(302) Emily’s father had driven off the many suitors for her as he thought none of them were good enough to be with her. The town’s people had felt sorry for her. Did Emily go crazy? As Emily had denied that her father had passed away she would not give up his body for a total of three days. The town folk all believed that she had gone crazy after that as they went to give her their condolences for her father passing. “In the summer after her father’s death” (302) sidewalk contractor began to redo them. Emily had ended up meeting the foreman Homer Barron. People in the town never thought Mr. Barron was good enough for Emily and they felt she was letting her name down. They had “began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in a yellow-wheeled buggy.”(302) Emily had made the decision that she need to purchase arsenic as she realizes her reputation was getting further compromised. As the town realized that Emily had purchased arsenic they started to get afraid of what she would …show more content…
do and they called in her cousins from another to state to come. After the cousins had decided to make their way back home as Mr. Barron who had vanished until this time had been seen at Emily’s door at dusk. “That was the last we saw of Homer Barron.”(304) The cousins had been the last to see Emily on the streets. Emily has now “grown fat and her hair was turning grey” (305) as Emily no longer leaves her house. She has closed the top floor of her house. At the age of seventy-four Emily had passed away The town folk would occasionally get a glimpse of her but other than that she was never heard from again until she had died. Moving into our final stage we finally get an understanding of what happen after Emily had passed. The upstairs of Emily house that she had sealed up was not opened for forty years. When they did open it they could understand that she loved him so much as they found “a long strand of gray hair on the pillow”. “A Rose for Emily” shows us so multiple time spans stretched throughout multiple decades.
We see Emily’s life through multiple series of flashbacks. Emily was introduced to us by her funeral and then taking us back to her past. Approaching the end we realized the even Emily’s funeral is a flashback. Leading us to the undoing of the upstairs bedroom. Emily is portrayed to us as a little girl, to her father chasing off suitor, to an old woman, and to her death at the age of seventy four. This has given us the feeling of the past and present coexisting as to how they have influenced each other. All of this goes to show that Emily was always committed regardless of the
past. This story has multiple characters but Emily Grierson is our main character. Emily is seen as a young vibrant woman who was left alone after her father had passed away leaving her devastated. As her father had rejected multiple suitors, she had fallen for Homer Barron. The town folk pitied Emily. Homer Barron had been poisoned and sealed upstairs in Emily’s house as she had fallen for him. Now, Barron was a foreman who fell for Emily. Sundays is when Emily and Barron would be seen going on buggy rides. In the townspeople eyes Barron was just a porr man who was not good enough to be with Emily. Stevens was the mayor and judge of Jefferson. Stevens wanted to respect Emily’s pride as he was having to handle the complaints for all the townspeople about Emily’s property. Mr. Grierson was Emily’s father who even after his death still have a great hold on his daughter Emily. Mr. Grierson feared if Emily would marry he would not be able to keep his control. He had a big influence on the town and most would see him as a man who was very controlling. I believe that the narrator is wanting us to understand the story form the view of the town’s people. You can see that we multiple question as to how well did the narrator know Emily. What are the changes that our narrator may be one of the suitor that Emily’s father scared away or perhaps maybe ever her older servant? Our narrator was very judgmental and he just portrayed himself as a townsperson. Now, thought he is very good at hiding how he wanted to be portrayed it kind of leads us to believe that maybe he knows just a little too much to just be a town’s person. I feel he focused on the townspeople perspective to show us how much he cared for her and how they had been treating her. For a story with multiple changing parts and not following in the exact order could be a little hard to follow at first. As we get pulled into many emotions we still have a mystery that has kept us wanting to read more. Looking back at the glance of the entail plot, the time and the chronological shifts, a few of our charters, and last but certainly not least a little about the narrator we have been kept on our toes and wanting to read more. This story was a great read. I got lost a few times while reading it but each time understanding more and more and feeling all the different emotions that where put into this one story.
Works Cited
Faulkner, William “A Rose for Emily.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. 11th edition. Kelly J. Mays, Ed. New York: Norton, 2014. 617. Print.
Getty. Laura J. “Faulkner’s Rose for Emily.” Explicator 63. 4 (2005): 230-234. Academic Search Complete. Mon. 21 Nov. 2016.
Annotated Bibliography
Faulkner, William “A Rose for Emily.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. 11th edition. Kelly J. Mays, Ed. New York: Norton, 2014. 617. Print.
This is the primary source for Essay 2 (William)
Getty, Laura J. “Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily.” The Explicator 63. 4 (2005): 230-234. Academic Search Complete. Web 21 Nov. 2016
This article the “Rose” represents secrecy: the confidential relationship between the author and his charters, will all of the privilege information withheld. (Getty) With this article it helps me with the theory that I have come up. I feel that it helps prove that we truly have no clue who the narrator is and how the story is broken down into parts but not in any set order. This is a trusted site that was found in the literary database Academic Search.
Writing Process Summation
I have chosen this story because I felt that it grabbed my attention. I felt as if I was watching a movie, but really I was reading. It had multiple feelings and emotions, yet you were still able to focuses on who the story was mainly about. Understanding this story was really kind of hard until I re-read it several times. For me to truly understand what it met I have to read some reviews on it. The reviews really helped me understand all the parts that didn’t make any sense. The reviews really help me grasp what was being said on the parts that didn’t click but it also pointed out to me that on some of the other parts I was on track. I wanted this essay to focus on the entail plot of the story, the time and the chronological shifts, a few of our charters, and last but certainly not least a little about the narrator. I made a list of thing that I needed to do as I was writing this and reading the story. It seems that every time I re-read my essay I find multiple things I need to change or take out or just change a few of the words. I had to walk away several times while writing this to re-think my thoughts and clear my head. While reading I wrote down main points that I felt I could use for my outline as I was reading that I could use to focus my essay on. By reading my essay I hope that I have help you better under this story. Maybe from reading this essay you can say that you learned something new they maybe you missed yourself while reading it and now you go back and re-read it, and now it makes even more sense. It amazes me how every person will get something totally different each time they read something.