A Rose For Emily 1. Why was it difficult‚ if not impossible‚ for Emily to meet possible husbands in her youth? So the reason she couldn’t meet possible husbands in her youth was because of her father and if her father had been a little better with the different men that wanted her than that would have the life of his daughter in the future. But he left her at a tough position by thinking that no man is good enough for his daughter. An evident for this would be‚ “… [No] young… [Man was]… good
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A Rose for Emily Emily’s Father Throughout this story‚ the overbearing presence of Emily Grierson’s father is perhaps the greatest influence on her behavior. The story describes how Miss Emily’s father rejected her suitors by standing in front of her and aggressively clutching a horsewhip whenever the young men came to call. Without her fathers influence and overprotective behavior it is likely that Emily would have made one of her suitors her husband when she was still
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My reaction of Happy Endings and A Rose for Emily. Happy Endings is a quite interesting short story. Margaret Atwood is such a great author of her peers. She has put a different twist in literature. I was quite impressed with this‚ since I have not read anything quite so unique. The short stories that I have read have always been the same type of reading. They all have a straightforward beginning‚ middle‚ and end. With Happy Endings‚ it has many different scenarios that can possibly happen before
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Grierson was the reason Emily was not married and he was also the reason Emily experienced attachment and control disorders later in her life. The narrator tells the readers that the Grierson’s had held themselves a little too high for what they were and that none of the young men were good enough for Miss Emily. The town’s people thought of the Grierson’s as a tableau‚ with Miss Emily in the background dressed in white and her father in the front with his back towards Miss Emily clutching on to a horsewhip
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reading‚ make note of your new understandings. Why did the colonel do that for Emily’s father? Did he do something prior for him and his family or something? Is the smell from a dead body? The drug is labeled “for rats”‚ did Homer do something to Emily like cheating on her? No‚ she kills him so she won’t have to lose him.What’s the deal with the yellow? If she was laying on the bed with him‚ that
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The character Emily Rose in "A Rose for Emily" is considered a static character because; her traits throughout the story do not change. In the story she is deemed as quiet‚ inhuman and‚ even mad. However‚ through further inspection; there are characteristics displayed throughout the story that can possibly prove that Emily was a dynamic character. Throughout the piece Emily changes both mentally‚ socially and physically. Miss Emily‚ the main character of this story‚ lives for many years as a recluse;
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Debra Arnold January 14‚ 2011 Emily Grierson “A Rose for Emily” is a horror story by Faulkner. Emily Grierson‚ whose life story is told by an anonymous narrator‚ who represents the attitudes and ideas of the community. When suppressed by her father until his death‚ she takes up with a Northern laborer‚ Homer Barron. When she is faced with desertion from Homer‚ she turns to murdering him by arsenic. It was later discovered after Emily’s death that Homer’s rotting corpse was in the upstairs
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"A Rose for Emily‚" written by William Faulkner‚ "Good Country People" by Flannery O’Connor‚ "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ and Toni Cade Barbara’s "The Lesson" all share a common theme of isolation. The four stories also share a common thread in each of these short stories is the protagonist’s arrogance and pride leads to their ultimate downfall. The story “A Rose for Emily” is told by an unknown narrator who lives in the town of Jefferson Mississippi. The reader is introduced
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Mood defined – how the story makes the reader feel. The mood of this story is that the main character Emily’s life was a sad and depressed life. It makes you feel sorry for Ms. Emily that her father kept her sheltered all of her life until he died. Then after he died she was not really able to find anyone to love her. When she finally met a man he showed her the attention that she had always wanted. Homer Barron was the only actual love she had ever seen. Although the attention he was giving
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feel the same way. He does not tell her because he only wants to use her for her money; Miss Emily found out by rumors and she was very furious. She decided to buy some rat poison so she can take care of the problem; Once she does‚ the neighborhood noticed a weird smell and complained about it. She was still very upset because the city authorities keep telling her she has to pay her taxes now. Miss Emily kills Homer‚ but still does not want to be apart from him so she keeps him in a bedroom and
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