Examples of foreshadowing in "A Rose for Emily"
“A Rose for Emily”: Homer’s Body
In William Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily”. Ms. Emily has a hard time letting go of the past this is shown when she kills Homer and keeps his dead body. During the story Ms. Emily’s dad dies. Ms. Emily said her father was not dead, for days the ministers and the doctors were trying to get her to bury his body … (Faulkner 32). She did not want to bury her dad’s body it is clear that she has a problem with change and letting go. This foreshadows her killing Homer and keeping his body after his death.
A foreshadowing of Homer’s death is when Ms. Emily buys poison. Ms. Emily goes to the drugstore while her cousins are visiting. “Arsenic,” Miss Emily said. “Is that a good one?”
“Is…arsenic? Yes, ma’am. But what you want—“
“ I want arsenic”(Faulkner 33).
During this scene it is evident that there is something suspicious going on. Ms. Emily only wants arsenic a deadly drug. She does not want anything else. It is evident that she wants to kill someone, which is later known to be Homer.
The last part of the story foreshadows how Homer’s body was found later in the story. Homer had just arrived back it town when, “A neighbor saw the Negro man [Tobe] admit him [Homer] at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron”(Faulkner 34). The reader thinks back to when she bought the poison, and kept her dads body.
Work Cited
Faulkner, William. “A Rose For Emily.” An Introduction to Fiction . Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana
Gioia. Eleventh Edition. Boston: Longman, 2010. 30-35. Print.
In William Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily”. Ms. Emily has a hard time letting go of the past this is shown when she kills Homer and keeps his dead body. During the story Ms. Emily’s dad dies. Ms. Emily said her father was not dead, for days the ministers and the doctors were trying to get her to bury his body … (Faulkner 32). She did not want to bury her dad’s body it is clear that she has a problem with change and letting go. This foreshadows her killing Homer and keeping his body after his death.
A foreshadowing of Homer’s death is when Ms. Emily buys poison. Ms. Emily goes to the drugstore while her cousins are visiting. “Arsenic,” Miss Emily said. “Is that a good one?”
“Is…arsenic? Yes, ma’am. But what you want—“
“ I want arsenic”(Faulkner 33).
During this scene it is evident that there is something suspicious going on. Ms. Emily only wants arsenic a deadly drug. She does not want anything else. It is evident that she wants to kill someone, which is later known to be Homer.
The last part of the story foreshadows how Homer’s body was found later in the story. Homer had just arrived back it town when, “A neighbor saw the Negro man [Tobe] admit him [Homer] at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron”(Faulkner 34). The reader thinks back to when she bought the poison, and kept her dads body.
Work Cited
Faulkner, William. “A Rose For Emily.” An Introduction to Fiction . Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana
Gioia. Eleventh Edition. Boston: Longman, 2010. 30-35. Print.
Cited: Faulkner, William. “A Rose For Emily.” An Introduction to Fiction . Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Eleventh Edition. Boston: Longman, 2010. 30-35. Print.