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    short story “A Rose for Emily” it seems that Emily was plagued with loneliness most of her life. While she was happy as a child‚ she became lonely when her father passed. She began to isolate herself from everyone and her reclusiveness became worse when Homer Barron‚ her beau‚ left her. She did not go to the market but would instead send Tobe‚ her manservant to do the shopping. When people would come to visit‚ she would have Tobe turn them away. It seems sad and pitiful that Emily would choose to

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    or omnipotent‚ the author can control the information available to the reader‚ which causes the reader to draw conclusions based solely on the information as presented. In “A Rose for Emily”( 84 ) the author uses a limited omnipotent narrator to relay the events over a period of several decades that relate to Miss Emily Grierson. Use of a limited omnipotent narrator allows the reader to be ‘present’ for several unusual occurrences‚ but invites the reader to let their imagination drive what those

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    and beautiful “It was a big‚ squarish frame house that had once been white‚ decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies‚ set on what had once been our most select street (A Rose for Emily)” it resembles Emily in her youth also very young and pure even having plenty of suitors to choose from. As the story progresses and her father dies she doesn’t know how to cope with loss. She begins to lose her mind unable to move on she begins to fall

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    While this short story “A Rose for Emily” is told from an unnamed narrator‚ who portrays Emily Grierson as a monument and pitied by the people of her town because she refuses to accept change and demands to live life based on her own terms. She dominates the tale‚ with her being a dignified woman and the last surviving Grierson remaining in her town. Therefore‚ she is well respected because of who her father is. Emily’s father‚ Mr. Grierson‚ a high and mighty man‚ who is also controlling chases all

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    Theme Of A Rose For Emily

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    One of the themes is emotional abuse and control. The characters that help built this theme were Emily Grierson‚ who was a stubborn‚ troubled and artistic as the protagonist. I consider that she was stubborn because after receiving letters informing her that she would have to pay state taxes‚ she still refuses to pay them. She did not want to accept that now she had different terms regarding paying taxes. Homer Barron was a carefree person‚ social and northern foreman. I view this antagonist characters

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    The short story “A Rose for Emily” is a very queer narrative. Emily’s inability to have someone leave her again caused her to murder a man. In this story Emily loses her father to death; despite her negligence. She also finds a charming man named Homer Barron who she starts to fall in love with. She knows Homer will leave her and she cannot let that happen; so she poisons him and sleeps with his dead body for 10 years. She did these awful things because of her inability to let go of the past that

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    In the short storyA Rose for Emily‚ Faulkner uses the role of male figures in Emily’s life to provide important character traits. The two men in her life‚ her father‚ Mr. Grierson and her boyfriend Homer Barron lead her to become a shelled up‚ introverted and mysterious woman. Emily’s father is her first and most influential male figure‚ providing the foundation for her "insane"-type behavior in later years. Homer Barron comes along later and forces Emily to revisit the tyranny of her father and

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    A Rose for Emily: Sequel

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    Months had gone by since the passing of Emily‚ we didn’t know who to contact for her funeral‚ or even her belongings. After the incident in finding Homers body the house had yet to be examined fully. We had managed to find documents that had proof of Emily giving birth to a young child about thirty nine years back however. The baby was given up for adoption‚ but these papers led us to believe that somewhere Emily and Homer had conceived a child that is the rightful heir to this fortune. It took

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    single child though and after her father’s death‚ her life was a miserable one (Hoowe). • The repetitively used phrase “poor Emily”. The author has used the words poor Emily so many times so that the reader may themselves be convinced that she was someone who must be taken care of. Her death and the last scene‚ where people actually saw the home of poor Emily‚ also make the reader to perceive that they should be sorry for what happened to the character (Team). • The sympathies of the

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    writing creepy and a bit scary. In his “A Rose for Emily”‚ he includes Miss Emily Grierson or Miss Emily is portrayed as the creppy woman of the town in Yoknapatawpha County. In Faulkners “That Evening Sun” the Compson family and their slaves Nancy and Jesus should be feared for their actions and way of life. Faulkner’s use of Southern Gothic writing puts fear into his readers through his characters in his stories. In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily‚” Miss Emily is suspected of acting the way she‚ because

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