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    Written in 1931 Robert Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily is quite an interesting story on many different levels. A Rose For Emily demonstrates how culture shapes identity. His telling‚ the way he portrays this story allows us to step outside of our own identities and see first hand how diverse the human environment really can be. A Rose For Emily is the narrative-type story of the life and death of an eccentric woman named Emily Grierson. It is told craftily from a point of view that utilizes flashbacks

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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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    May 13‚ 2013 Literature A Rose for Emily Emily Grierson is an outsider‚ controlling and limiting the town’s access to her true identity by remaining hidden. Her family was wealthy and successful and as I recall the Alderman lets her taxes slide. Miss Emily was very different.  She never was able to date or to make any decisions for herself.  Her father did that all for her and didn’t believe that any man was "good enough" but Homer Barron was there and they were together. She is a decaying

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    October 2010 “A Rose for EmilyAnalysis William Faulkner wrote a tale about an old woman living in the town of Jefferson called “A Rose for Emily”. Faulkner wrote the setting of the story in the 1900’s era. “A Rose for Emily” illustrates the theme of decay in the town‚ the house‚ and in Miss Emily herself. He opens the story as the town finds out about Emily’s death. An unknown narrator who lives in the town of Jefferson recounts the story. We learn of the life and times of Emily‚ her relationship

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    Literary Analysis In the poem‚ “A Rose for Emily” it describes the life of Emily. Emily’s dad passed away and she was left by herself. After her dad passes away‚ the townspeople showed up to her house demanding for their taxes. Emily told them she did not have to pay her taxes and demanded that they get out and never come back. Later on‚ the townspeople found this stench but are afraid to bring this to Emily’s attention. They soon complained to Judge Stevens and the townspeople went over in the middle

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    The Insight Into “A Rose for Emily” In the literature piece of “A Rose for Emily” it’s clear that change is essential in a person’s life. Emily is an example of this based on how she stays in the past throughout the story. She remains the same since her pre-civil war self and Faulkner would agree that the past should stay in the past. The narrator is spoken in third person and he is seen as ghostly since his identity is unknown‚ from context clues you can assume it’s someone in the town “But the

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    Character Analysis: A Rose for Emily The focus of my character analysis of A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner will be the title character‚ Emily. The Emily character is established as the main focus of the story from the very beginning “When Miss Emily Grierson died‚ our whole town went to her funeral” (Faulkner‚ 2010‚ p.538). We are led to believe from her description that although she is from a prominent family‚ Emily does not fit the mold of a southern belle “We had long thought of them

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    Analysis of A Rose for Emily Miss Emily represents the "old south." She is stubborn and she refuses to accept that the world is changing around her. The people of the town often gossip about Miss Emily. The use of symbolism and foreshadowing is a major component of the story. Miss Emily represents the "old south." She lives in her father’s house with her Negro servant Tobe. She has lived in the town and has been a member of the community for as long as anyone can remember. The people

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    The Symbolism in “A Rose for Emily” “I want the best you have... I want arsenic.” Emily was purchasing rat poison. Did she really have rats? Or did she poison her husband Homer Barron? William Faulkner used a few ciphers in “A Rose for Emily” to get his readers to explore their imagination. It is an extremely suspenseful‚ on the edge of your seat‚ story with a shocking ending. It is a short story about an old women who loses her father and eventually her husband; she is the talk of the town and

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    A Rose For Emily In many stories characters isolate themselves for society‚ due to events of their past. Extreme isolation can cause can cause loneliness in one’s life. In ’’A Rose For Emily’’‚ the author seems to portray that such isolation can cause someone to do an unspeakable act. Isolation and loneliness in any case will cause some behavioral issues. The main character‚ Emily Grierson lives her life under her father. Her father thinks that no man is good enough for his daughter. Therefore

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