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    “Decayed” Rose for Emily William Faulkner once said‚ “Given a choice between grief and nothing‚ I’d choose grief.”(goodreads) He further explains why he’d do this in A Rose for Emily; although the story is not about him‚ he details the loneliness and decay of a poor women‚ Miss Emily. Emily cannot grasp the idea of death and this leads to the decay of everything around her. A Rose for Emily illustrates the theme of decay in the town‚ the house‚ and in herself. The short story A Rose for Emily written

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    1. “A Rose for Emily” is narrated in first-person plural. Why do you think Faulkner chose “we” rather than “I” as the voice for the story? How might this narrative strategy be related to the description of Emily as “a tradition‚ a duty‚ and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” (part 1 paragraph 3)? I think Faulkner chose “we” rather than “I” to insinuate the town as a whole view of Emily. She was a duty to the whole town. Emily felt she had privilege over comon town folk and their

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    A rose for emily

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    “A Rose for Emily” is a short story by William Faulkner‚ which is about a wealthy‚ lonely white woman‚ Emily‚ living in a post civil war town in the south. Throughout the story the town‚ Jefferson‚ is changing to welcome new technology and advances. Faulkner addresses the themes of progress and change in the south. A few things in the story remained the same; one of those things being Emily. They represent the true south. Faulkner wanted the south to preserve their traditions. But change was coming

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    Rose for Emily

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    Dr. Holly Elliot Freshman Comp 2 14 February 2013 A Ripe Rose When reading the first paragraph of‚ “We all said‚ ‘she will kill herself’ “: The Narrator / Detective in Williams Faulkner’s “A Rose For Emily” by Lawrence R. Rodgers‚ I automatically knew that his essay was going to be about the depiction of the genre in the story A Rose For Emily which he clarified as being “a classical expression of American Gothicism.” (413). And “the classical detective

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    Contrast of Emily’s Refusal or Inability to Change Miss Emily Grierson‚ the main character in the short story‚ “A Rose for Emily‚” by William Faulkner‚ was raised sheltered and over-protected from society by her father. Miss Emily wasn’t allowed to get close to anyone including her own family because of a falling out over her late Aunt Wyatt’s estate. When Miss Emily’s father died she could not accept it. The town discovered Miss Emily had kept her father ’s dead body at the dinner table for three

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    A rose for emily

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    “A Rose for Emily” 1. What is meaningful in the final detail that the strand of hair on the second pillow is iron-gray? -This I meaningful because Miss Emily’s hair was described as iron-gray. This makes it understood that one her hair’s was in the bed with Homer’s body‚ which means that she had recently been exposed to his corpse. 2. Who is the unnamed narrator? For whom does he profess to be speaking? -I believe the unnamed narrator could be several people voicing their own opinion or point

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    A Rose for Emily

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    In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”‚ the story is about a woman living in a fictional town of Mississippi. This story begins with the narrator discussing a woman who died in her old age‚ and how her life impacted a community. Emily Grierson has a hard time acknowledging and adjusting to the changes in her life. For example‚ “Miss Emily met them at the door‚ dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead.”(Faulkner‚ page. 81) This quote clearly

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    Rose For Emily

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    Thesis Poor Emily withered away just like a rose she blooms into a beautiful woman but like the rose she is unable to retain the beauty and eventually dies. Emily life was a very hard life that contributed to her psychological disaster. Her brain loses brain cells and the rose loses petals. They both live a hard life and Emily bloomed when she killed Homer by having something she has always wanted. The rose blooms when it is the most vibrant color of its life cycle. They both die but when the time

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    A Rose for Emily

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    Yean Saephan In “A Rose for Emily”‚ the narrator begins the story by letting us know that Miss Emily Grierson has died and that she had not been seen in at least ten years. As the narrator continues to describe the house and it’s location as being located on‚ “which had once been our most select street‚” is now encroached and obliterated by garages and cotton gins‚ it is undoubtedly obvious that the narrator’s goal was to depict Miss Emily Grierson as one who has been living in seclusion in avoidance

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    William Faulkner uses a mass selection of literary devices in “A Rose for Emily” to leave the reader amazed. Two literary devices that helped shape the overall feeling of “A Rose for Emily” are imagery and foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is used variety times throughout the story. Faulkner add suspects to the character by her memorization lost in time. Isolation is a impact that is caused by Miss. Emily action and choices she makes throughout life. Another serious impact in Miss. Emily life is abandonment

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