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    Rose for Emily

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    In the short story “A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner‚ it starts off with the unknown narrator explaining Miss Emily’s funeral and why the townspeople actually attended. From this the reader learns what type of character Miss Emily is. She does not like change and cannot handle denial. Her family’s name and the way she was bought up by her father is the explanation for this. Throughout the story the reader realizes how respected her family was and what lengths Miss Emily is willing to go to keep

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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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    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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    best and also her worst. In William Faulkner’s classic‚ ‘A Rose for Emily’‚ he brings this premise to surface. This story illustrates the character of Emily who sustained herself throughout her entire grievance for a long period‚ and eventually ended up killing and sleeping with the corpse of her lover‚ Homer Baron. Although her life was not smooth-sailing‚ she showed traits that proved her strong‚ and also weak. Through this story‚ Emily exemplifies how women can show traits that are strong and

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    “A rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” is a story about Emily Grierson who kills her Yankee boyfriend Homer Barron and lives with his body in her bedroom for over forty years. However‚ the story is not really about Miss Emily’s actions‚ but more about the society that made her into who she is and how it conflicted with the ever changing post southern civil war society. Miss Emily grew up as part of an aristocratic Southern family‚ with an overpowering father who refused to allow her to be courted

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    A Rose For Emily “A Rose for Emily”‚ by William Faulkner discusses that change should be recognized by everyone. What was in the past for Emily‚ should be left in past. Although her father and Colonel Satoris are dead‚ Emily refuses to accept the fact that her loved ones are gone. In Emily’s case she wanted to change a number of times but never had the support of her own town. The townsfolk don’t understand why Emily won’t change‚ but in reality she cannot change. Locking herself inside a bubble

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    Collin Brandl AP English Professor Hertzog 2/26/13 A key trait to southern gothic fiction is that it often contains a character that is in a state of helpless isolation from the people around them. In the short story “A Rose for Emily”‚ William Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily Grierson with sexual repression and a psychological state that keeps her mind in the time before the Civil War. This characterization stems from her father‚ her boyfriend Homer Baron and the town of Jefferson itself‚ and

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    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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