A Rose for Emily Essay Story Analysis
Alesha N. Duff June 13, 2012
Class: English 1302 Hours: 2:45-4:45
Section: TM033 Days: M-W
Critical Thinking Assignment “A Rose for Emily”
1. “And now miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.” Upon doing some reading and research on William Faulkner, small details have begun to emerge about his upbringing and his deep ties to the south. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” was first published in an issue of Forum magazine and it was first shared with the public on April 30th, 1930. The narrator is never named although the storyteller highlights the oddities of Emily Grierson. In my opinion I see Emily as a dried up old spinster that is stuck in her ways and unwilling to change with the times. The story tells us much about Jefferson, yet it also leaves a lot of the work up to the reader. The story tells us a lot about Emily’s life, her painful relationship with her dad, her odd lover, the small town of Jefferson, and some awfully personal details about several secrets Emily is keeping, and in many ways the town is keeping. Many of Faulkner’s stories take place in the south, as William Faulkner was born in Mississippi in the city of New Albany. When William was five years old his family relocated to the town Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner spent a lot of his time as a child fishing and hunting in Lafayette County. William Faulkner was named after his great grandfather who was a colonial. The character named Colonel Sartoris was based on his grandfather, and the colonial character plays a pertinent role in another of his novels named Flags in the Dust. Another interesting fact about Mr. Faulkner is that his family was quite wealthy back in the day, due to being former plantation owners. William
Class: English 1302 Hours: 2:45-4:45
Section: TM033 Days: M-W
Critical Thinking Assignment “A Rose for Emily”
1. “And now miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.” Upon doing some reading and research on William Faulkner, small details have begun to emerge about his upbringing and his deep ties to the south. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” was first published in an issue of Forum magazine and it was first shared with the public on April 30th, 1930. The narrator is never named although the storyteller highlights the oddities of Emily Grierson. In my opinion I see Emily as a dried up old spinster that is stuck in her ways and unwilling to change with the times. The story tells us much about Jefferson, yet it also leaves a lot of the work up to the reader. The story tells us a lot about Emily’s life, her painful relationship with her dad, her odd lover, the small town of Jefferson, and some awfully personal details about several secrets Emily is keeping, and in many ways the town is keeping. Many of Faulkner’s stories take place in the south, as William Faulkner was born in Mississippi in the city of New Albany. When William was five years old his family relocated to the town Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner spent a lot of his time as a child fishing and hunting in Lafayette County. William Faulkner was named after his great grandfather who was a colonial. The character named Colonel Sartoris was based on his grandfather, and the colonial character plays a pertinent role in another of his novels named Flags in the Dust. Another interesting fact about Mr. Faulkner is that his family was quite wealthy back in the day, due to being former plantation owners. William