A Rose For Emily Character Analysis Essay

Pity for Emily???      In the short story A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner there is a very interesting character. Her Name is Emily Grierson and she is a rich southern gentile. All her life it seems that she was raised at a standard that was above the rest. By living such a secluded and controlled life it set her up for the happenings in her future.      When her father passed away she had nobody to tell her what to do and how to act. This was very devastating and she had a hard time dealing with change. So much so that she wouldn't let the police take the body of her father out of the house for three days after his death. The only thing that was constant in her house was the slave...show more content...      By losing this father figure she was left to fend for herself and was virtually helpless. When she finally found a male that showed some interest and emotion, she was attached to them. That's where Homer Barron comes into the story. He would visit Emily and go for Sunday drives with her. When Homer told Emily that he must move on she found herself on the verge of loneliness once again. If Homer would leave it would be two men that have left her. When she realized that he was about to leave she poisoned him and would keep him forever.      In her mind she had the one thing she needed most, companionship. Even if it was a dead corpse, it was stilling something. In the end of the story when the book states, "We saw a long strand of iron gray hair," it was obvious that she sought refuge from the world in that bed with Homer. However twisted that may sound it showed how desperate she really was. That is the pint in the story where things really change. If you look back on her life and how everyone in town abandoned her, you really have strong feelings for her. You feel sorry that she was left to fend for herself without any idea of what to do. She did what she felt she had to do, and in her mind it was all right.      The author wrote this story as a literary genius. There is an extreme level of suspense that leaves you wanting

A Rose For Emily Character Analysis

Growing up, Emily Grierson's father kept her away from love. He rejected all men who wanted to love her, but after he passes, Emily begins to attempt to fill the gap in her life. However, when she finds out that her newly found lover is gay, her love takes a dark turn. In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the lack of freedom from town expectations, and moods swings erupting upon her father's death lead her to fall for an emotionally unavailable male. Emily does not know anything about love because her father was very strict about her having relationships. Emily's mother is not mentioned in the story, thus making it seem she either died when Emily was young or she does not live with the family. This shows that Emily does not have the "mother–daughter" bond that a girl needs. Emily now has a stronger bond with her father. Every male that wanted to be with her, her father ran off. The story quotes, "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily...Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip..." (paragraph 26). This states that Emily's father was always in the background watching over her like a small child. Even though multiple men had come to date her, they were never good enough. After her father dies, she now has the freedom to do as she pleases. Even though Emily's father kept her in the shadows, she still loved him very much. After he passes, she

Miguel Reyes Professor Ellis ENG 3332 10 December 2016 "A Rose for Emily" Character Analysis In the short story, "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner shows the audience the impression that Emily became a lonely person due to the many turning dealings in her life. After being separated for several years from the rest of town, things changed and the new townspeople went to Miss Emily asking her to pay her fair share of taxes. Her reply was for them to see Colonel Sartoris. According to the narrator, Colonel Sartoris had been dead for about ten years. As the story goes on, she became very ill and by the time the townspeople saw her again she had a short hair and looked sorrowful. Over time, her housekeeper Tobe ran her errands for her. After some time had passed, the townspeople saw that Emily's physical appearance has changed. The narrator mentions noticing Emily getting fat and her hair turning gray to where it eventually became salt and pepper gray....show more content...

The medics tried to come to her to help her take the body from the house, but she rejected. The only love she knew was the love of her father so the passing of her father must have had an enormous impact on her. He was the only one in her life that was protective of her. Later, she broke down and let law enforcement come to the house to bury of his body properly. As a whole, Emily's behavior throughout the whole story shows the audience that she might be mentally ill. After the death of her father, she held on to his body and was in denial that he was dead when the townspeople came to offer their condolences. After losing the most important man in her life, she found another man named Homer Barron. With the belief of them getting married, she proceeded to buy marital things such as a toilet set in silver with his initials engraved on

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A Rose For Emily Character Analysis

Emily Rose was the town's nutcase. The town's people always had some gossip to spread about her, but never knew the real Emily. She was a mysterious woman who only exposed herself to the few who were worthy, but was a hot commodity in the town. In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, the characters,plot and setting strengthen the eeriness yet comical short story. Thecharacter in the story are not deemed "normal." Emily Rose exuded strange characteristics which were shown through her actions throughout the story. Emily was a lonely woman who did not want any company other than her servant. After her father and her sweetheart died, Emily became reclusive and spoke to no one, most likely caused by her father's doing. It was believed she was lonely, "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will." Her father drove away all aspects of a social life for Emily which could be a contributor to the "strange" character she plays. Emily herself has stated abnormal things, like when she asked for the poison from the doctor, she simply stared at him until he would give her what she wanted. The action of silently staring is not considered a "normal" action, which only enforces the peculiar personality Emily holds. Emily Rose's character aids in contributing to the eeriness of the plot, with her strange characteristics and actions throughout the story. Homer Barron

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An Analysis of A Rose for Emily

During the period of Modernism, artists portrayed corruption and rebellion in their pieces rather than having a sense of order and tradition. Similarly, they strived to show rejection of conservative values acting as the practical depiction of the world. A portrayal of someone showing untraditional acts is reflected in William Faulkner's short story, "a Rose for Emily." The Protagonist rebels from tradition and takes unexpected actions. As she is left all alone with no one but her servant, she ultimately loses sanity. By describing Emily's strange choices she takes, the author illustrates the main characters corruption to herself and the town. Through imagery, he uses Isolationism to show how it leads to abnormal acts. ...show more content...

After her father's death Emily ultimately acts like nothing even happened. For when they tried to go to her house "Miss Emily met them at the door with no grief on her face. She told them her father was not dead."(p. 302) Even though Emily is completely alone, she still pretends like her father is still alive and well. To add on to Emily showing no sign of her fathers death, she makes some odd choices soon after. The townspeople said, "Presently we would begin to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow–wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable. At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, "of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner"(p 302) Emily now not even having her father, starts seeing a "Yankee" and the town feels shock on her choice of such a different man. Miss Emily's lack of grief as she pretends her father never died, and her choice to go after a northerner after her father's death shows how being alone leads to Miss Emily's odd

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A Rose for Emily William Faulkner's, A Rose for Emily, is an account from an eye witness' perspective of the life and dilemma of a noble woman belonging to the bankrupt aristocratic family in the late nineteenth century. It's a tale of a woman who due to her seclusion at the hands of her father and severe critique by the society turns into a mentally unstable person. The character of Emily is intriguing in its stubbornness of defying the changes around her. She is set in her ways and unwilling to let go of pride that comes with her family name even though the readers are informed at the very start of the narrative that she is left with nothing other than the house by her father. It is an empty pride she carries around her and a reason...show more content...

Samuel explains this shift of wealth, "For centuries, even millennia, being rich depended on one thing; owning land. In nineteenth century, however, industry emerged as a prime way to get rich." (7) In A Rose for Emily, this boom of industrialization is depicted in what sounds like disgust, "Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps–an eyesore among eyesores." And the failure of previously rich as, "But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood–". A Path for Progress. Industrialization brought a series of development that laid the foundations for America's progress. An article from Gale Database on 1878–1899: Lifestyles, Social Trends, and Fashion: Overview describes it as a time when, Homeowners in cities and suburbs were introduced to running water, gas, electricity, and sewer systems. Public places such as schools, stores, restaurants, and government offices were the first lighted by electricity, a service that became increasingly available in the 1890s. The story, A Rose for Emily, mentions these changes more than once for example, "The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks" and "When the town got free postal delivery–" Along with the infra–structures the legislations were reformed. In an article, The Development of Industrial United States the need for change in

Character Analysis: A Rose For Emily

The story is about a spinster: Miss Emily, who is described as an undefeated maiden, she was motherless and was raised by a restricted father who did not allow her to communicate with other men. When her father died, she tried to keep his corpse at home, which later in the story, produced some bad smell, therefore leading the town government to investigate her house. Later in the story, she met and dated a worker from the North, who afterward disappeared. During their acquaintance, the town started talking about Homers and Emily's relationship, because Homer was from North and was not suitable for a lady from South. After her death, the town discovered that all that time she had been living with the corpse of her suitor, Homer Barron, who...show more content...

It was still a very important matter for the townsfolk, that Emily's father had cruelly interfered in Emily's happiness, and even the town' people additionally isolated her out of concern and disgust. Everybody pitied Emily, even though, that was lots completely different than the way they could charm her. Maybe the last scene was a verification of her last saying about life.

And while reading "A Rose for Emily" we are confronted by as a morbid crime story, or a tragic story of a couple of bitter spinster, on second thought it can be seen as a story of girl who had the domination over the folks in her society and feeling entitled to her ascendance, she doesn't hesitate to impose her abnormal ways on them. Emily defied and revolted against the Southern patriarchy with its sexism and racial differentiation.

‟Emily is a victim because she belongs to another time and a different world that which emerges in her lifetime, and she flatly refuses to give up her internalized ideals and ideas because she has been given nothing in exchange for them. The reader can not and will not condone Emily's behavior, but at the same time as she is depicted as a product of a certain era and place , of ideas and attitudes and behavior of a bygone age which should have been buried with the veterans in the cemetery of Jefferson but which still is a part of present, although a dead part of a changing world''. (Skei, p.

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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; she withdraws from her community to live in seclusion. "No visitor had passed since she ceased giving china–painting lessons eight or ten years earlier."(pg.31) Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily's attempt to remove herself from society...show more content...

A reader of thisshort story would never have thought of Emily as being a killer; but, her desire for love and companionship drove her to murder Homer Baron.

Secondly, Emily Rose changes socially in the story. In the beginning of the piece Emily is described as being a recluse towards the townspeople. (pg. 32). Emily's father did not like loneliness; therefore he kept her beside him until his death. This fear of being alone was transmitted to Emily, who first would try to keep

Not wanting to deal with and accept change seems to be the message that author William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" is trying to convey. Emily Grierson is the main character in this story, the people of her town feel sorry for her after her father dies. She becomes a loner and does not leave her house. Emily was controlled by her father. He rejected suitors that were interested in marrying her. Now she is all alone, until a new person comes to town. Homer Barron comes to work in the town. Emily is very interested in him, but he does not return the feelings. Emily buys everything that would make it look like they are getting married. The townspeople are wondering if he will marry her. There is talk in the town that...show more content...

This is Miss Emily's craziest try at keeping her life the way it was before her father died. The death of her father was so traumatic for her that she never wanted to lose anything. This story takes place in the South, when there is racial discrimination. The South was very prejudice. "They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow" (Faulkner, A Rose for Emily). This use of the offensive word "negro" shows that Mr. Faulkner was trying to show what the life of anAfrican Americanwas during this time. They were just property and by using these words to talk about them, they had no identity. "In 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor –he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron–remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity" (Faulkner, A Rose for Emily). African Americans were seen as nothing more than workers. They could not socialize with white people, they were just there to serve them.

Mr. Faulkner explains the roles of women in the South and how they were seen through the eyes of men. "When Miss Emily Grierson died the whole town went to her funeral: the men out of respectful affection for a fallen monument and the women mostly out

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A Rose For Emily Character Analysis

At first sight, the work "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner looks like the story of a woman, Emily, who was molested by an entire city. For example, the moment when the new generation requires the payment of taxes even though Emily's family had reached an agreement with the previous city government to skip this payment. At that point, I really felt sorryfor Emily. However, as the story progresses we see that Emily deserved the repudiation of the inhabitants of the city because she acted in a strange and sometimes offensive way. One can think that circumstances of Emily's life were the main cause of her behavior, but there were other causes. The setting and the acts of Emily of this literary work contribute makes Emily an unsympathetic...show more content...

In short, the setting of the story made Emily an unsympathetic person. Emily acted very strangely as the story progressed. For example, Emily didn't care for her house, it passes from the best house around the town to a pile of smelly debris. That even surprised the inhabitants of Jefferson because how was it possible to let your own house to decay. However, the main moments where we can suspect of Emily are when she bought Arsenic, and when Homer Barron entered to Emily's house. What was the reason to buy Arsenic? She didn't even answer. But the store server gave it to her, for she was so appreciated by the town. Lately, Homer Barron entered her house, and he disappeared. We confirmed there was something wrong because a short time after Homer disappeared, a bad smell sprouts from Emily's house. From that same period, Emily stopped almost every contact with people from the outside except for some years where she gave painting lessons to some kids. In addition, Emily didn't want to let her dad go. She only accepted his death after three days had passed. Those acts raised suspicions between the inhabitants of Jefferson. Why didn't they interfere before her death? Maybe because she was so appreciated, or they felt guilty for Emily to lost her love. Were those acts the foreshadowing of what was going to happen at the end? We can assume that it is right. As a result, Emily became an Get more content

Character Analysis A Rose For Emily

In the short story, "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner, his main character Miss Emily Grierson is presented as a lonely and sane individual. Throughout the story, she begins to show signs of mental instability. She loses her father in the story which begins her deterioration of sanity. Emily Grierson suffers emotionally due to her father's moral code, pressure from town folks, and unrequited love. Faulkner presents the story through a narrator's voice instead of first person. The narrator tells of how the town folk believed the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily her father thought. It is believed that Miss Emily turned down so many of the young men because of her father's moral code; the town folks thought of him as a puppetmaster pulling the strings behind the scene in Emily's life. He kept her inside and gave Miss Emily very few decisions she could make entirely on her own. This isolation caused her to feel trapped, but it was the only thing she knew. Furthermore, he drove away all the young men in Emily's life which combined with the fact that she was usually isolated showed her father's controlling effect on her throughout his time alive. When he died, Miss Emily's sanity crumbled away as clearly presented in the story. Also in the story, the narrator speaks tells of how the town ladies attempted to offer their condolences and aid to Emily; but, they were met at the door

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A Rose for Emily begins with and ends with the death of Miss Emily Grierson, who was certainly a strong, strange character, and described as a monument to the people of her town and a character analysis on her can go in any number of directions. She had to overcome many difficulties in every step of her life. Therefore, every step of her life presents her characteristics in different parts of the story, but yet leaves the readers pondering...Who is Miss Emily Grierson? In the beginning of the story, it is said that Miss Emily is a traditional person, "a duty, a care and a sort of hereditary obligation around her town dating back from the day in 1894". Her character of being traditional goes back to the teaching of "china painting" lessons which...show more content...

Throughout her life, her father had always been controlling and dominating her life up until his death. After her father's death, it left her deeply distressed and more isolated than ever refusing to give up her father's dead body possibly because she was use to her father's presence and being in control of everything in her life which made it almost impossible for her to cope and leaving her in denial of her father's death. Some years after, Emily meets a man by the name of Homer Barron, whom she grew to love, but sadly the irony of this fate is that he wasn't attracted to her and also rejected her proposal of wanting to marry him. Another saying of the townspeople is "After her father's death she went out very little, after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her," and this shows how unfortunate she was. It's hard to imagine losing the ones you love most especially because they made such an impact in your life which is probably how Miss Emily felt. After all, her father and Homer Barron played a significant role in her life and for that reason she couldn't bear the absence of both her father and lover which made her stay unhappy living in her house. Although, Mr. Grierson appearance in the story was little, his dominating and controlling way was clear from the beginning of the story. For instance, he didn't allow Emily to get into a relationship

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William Faulkner, a well–known writer of short stories, wrote the story "A Rose for Emily". Emily, whom the story is named after, comes off as a rather odd character. The townspeople see her as a crazy individual, leading the reader to see her in such a way too. Her craziness is based off of her delusional actions. For example, her family became poor and their social status dropped. Rather than accept this drop in social status, she lived beyond her means. Her crazy behavior is continuously seen in the story. This behavior is linked to Emily's idea of living in the past, which is a theme that is present throughout the story. The manner in which Emily is depicted is provided by the narrator. The narrator seems to have the same knowledge of the townspeople, so he is not one who truly knows Emily. Based on this, he cannot be trusted. But, dialogue is provided to get the insight of others within the town. The other townspeople residing in Jefferson Mississippi after the Civil War view Emily as a crazy spinster, truly misunderstanding how she is as a person. That is until she develops a relationship with Homer Baron. This ...show more content...

A normal neighbor may be concerned and speak to their neighbor about such a smell, but the neighbors were too afraid of Emily's craziness to address the situation with her. Instead, the townspeople began to sprinkle limes around her house to try to get rid of the smell. This symbolizes how the townspeople want to change Emily and how scared they are of her. At this point in the story, Emily refuses to leave the house and rarely allows visitors in. She is isolating herself from her neighbors, when they had always attempted to isolate themselves from her. This brings up the mood of sorrow, any empathetic person would feel sorry for what Emily has to go through. All she truly needs is one individual to be there for her, yet all of the townspeople are too

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"A Rose for Emily" is a piece about a southern, aristocrat woman who becomes increasingly less stable as she ages. Emily lives a more secluded and a more interesting life than the other people in her town. The narrator of the piece plays a large role in the meaning of the story and contributes to the overall whole of the story in various ways. We get to see Emily's life from not only the narrator's personal point of view but also from the viewpoint of the entire town. The way that the narrator structures the piece contributes to the overall meaning as well. To start, the narrator contributes to the overall meaning of the piece by telling Emily's story in a different kind of structure. Instead of explaining Emily's life in the order in...show more content...

The narrator writing as a bystander and as a regular person of the town lets us see Emily's life from a more personal point of view, as well as all the opinions and assumptions that the people make about Emily. The people of the town make assumptions about the smell coming from Emily's house, about Homer Barron, and about the poison that Emily buys. They also assume that "she will kill herself", "she will marry him," and that "she will persuade him yet." Another effect of the narrator writing from a first person perspective is that we see, along with the people of the town, how Emily doesn't leave her house. For example, the narrator writes, "a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol." This adds to the gothic scene of the story because we see Emily as creepy and secluded from the alive town. From these personal assumptions and opinions of the town, we can feel sorry for Emily and we can see how secluded and lonely her life really is. Again, because of the assumptions and opinions of the narrator and the townspeople it becomes more understandable why Emily killed

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Miss Emily Up Close

In the short story of A Rose for Emily, the main character illustrates a disturbed individual that doesn't want to separate herself from a deceased loved one. Everyone knows what its like to loose a loved one, but the town of Jefferson had no idea how hard Emily had taken death until they unraveled her deep, dark secret. People knew what it must have been like to be Emily. They knew the type of life she had lived and felt bad for the way her father had kept her all cooped up and sheltered away from any man. They also knew her father had felt that no man was good enough for her. The people of Jefferson felt that the familythought they were better then everyone else and showed no sort of insanity. When her ...show more content...

Miss Emily kept to herself and was a quiet woman of old age. She didn?t want to let her father go because he was the only thing she really had left. After he had died, she had a hard time dealing with it and denied his death to the town. It took three days before she would release the body and give him up to be buried so she didn?t have to seek any type of punishment under the law. She also denied having seen any form of taxes and said that Colonel Sartoris (which was dead) had them. When her father died she had fallen in love with a man named Homer Barron. He kept leaving town, and would show up every now and then. Miss Emily wanted to marry Homer, and was lonely. She knew she would either have to convince him to marry her or he would leave. So she took matters into her own hands and went to the druggist and asked for the strongest poison they had for rats– arsenic. The narrator describes Emily as a small fat woman with eyes that resembled two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough. The narrator also tells about her tranquility and sort of robotic–like personality, as if she was in a daze. He tells the darkness which she endures, even though she looks like a humble woman who wouldn?t hurt anybody, and that she was just bothered by the previous death of her father. The narrator tells the secrets about her family and how her kin hadn?t spoke to her since her father had a fallen out with them. Also, he Get more content

A Rose For Emily", Emily Grierson kills her lover Homer Barron after being in love with him for about a year. She then sleeps next to the body in the upstairs bedroom of her home, loving it as if Homer were still alive. She then closes up the upstairs, never seeing the body again. There are three different motives that can be looked at as to why Emily killed Homer. She wanted to exercise power, she couldn't accept that Homer was a homosexual, and she didn't want another man to be taken away from her. Emily's father controlled her life up until his death. Emily's father believed that, "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. They had grown so close to each other, and when Emily finds out he is a homosexual, she feels betrayed and she kills him. The final reason as to why I believe Emily killed Homer is that she does not want to lose the most important person in her life a second time. When Emily's father, the most important and most influential person in her life, dies, Emily keeps the corpse in her house. The day after he dies all of the ladies come over to Emily's to offer their condolences. "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." Emily could not let go of him, so she keeps his dead body in her house. This same thing happens with Homer. Once she knows that Homer is the one, she poisons him with arsenic and then leaves him in the upstairs bedroom. When the townspeople find Homer's body, they make quite an interesting find. "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron–gray hair." This strand of hair on the pillow lets us know that Emily had been sleeping with Homer's corpse as if he were still alive. She had grown so attached to him after all of those years of not being able to go out with boys. She was in love with him and when he tried to leave her, she killed him. the last place he was ever seen was emily's house which means he is there still. emily was so heart broken about him trying to break her

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1.What is the meaning in the final detail that the strand of hair on the second pillow is iron gray in "A Rose for Emily"? It reveals that it was not long ago that Miss Emily had laid her head on the pillow next to the decaying Homer Barron. When this man was last seen, Miss Emily took on characteristics of a woman of youth. It is not until after an extended period of time that Homer Barron is not seen, all the while Miss Emily's her character begins to take on a more elderly traits. The narrator describes that her hair "grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper–and–salt iron gray, when it ceased turning" (Faulkner 36). Therefore, Miss Emily did continue to sleep by her deceased lover as she grew elderly. Furthermore, the...show more content...

Throughout each stanza there are a number of smaller instances of symbolism, all of which add to the depth of the poem as a whole. One in particular is the leaves on ground. Frost writes: "And both that morning equally lay In the leaves no steps had trotted black" (Frost lines 1 –12). While ponding the two roads, he finds each of have their own beauty. Each of the roads has been walked before, but he will be the first to experience one of them that day, for he points out the fresh morning coving each of them in the same manner. Furthermore, the leaves have fallen from the trees, giving a new feel to the road beneath a travelers feet. This symbolizes the changes that take place around us each and every day. While we may expect one thing to be the same when we experience again after some time, the likely hood is that it will be different, thus giving it new life along with the morning. 4.Is the narrator of "The Road Not Taken" (a) bemoaning the difficulty of choosing between two equally good options, or is he (b) lauding the seldom–chosen option as superior? The narrator of "The Road not taken is lauding the seldom–chosen option as superior. There is a pleasant tone to the author's style, one that casts out any belittling attitude towards decision making. Frost states: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and l– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the

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Emily Grierson, referred to as Miss Emily throughout the story, is the main character of 'A Rose for Emily,' written by William Faulkner. Emily is born to a proud, aristocratic family sometime during the Civil War; Miss Emily used to live with her father and servants, in a big decorated house. The Grierson Family considers themselves superior than other people of the town. According to Miss Emily's father none of the young boys were suitable for Miss Emily. Due to this attitude of Miss Emily's father, Miss Emily was not able to develop any real relationship with anyone else, but it was like her world revolved around her father. When her father passed away, it was a devastating loss for Miss Emily. The lines from the story 'She told...show more content... suggests that Homer Barron is a fun loving person. While, Emily comes out of the house very few times, and is never seen having fun with people. When Emily proposed Homer Barron for marriage, Homer refuses to marry Emily, as he did not wanted to overtaken by time and become dull as Emily would have wished. Thus, Emily poisons Homer Barron and killed him and kept him forever with her. Emily?s life has been overtaken by time. And she has halted the passage of time. The passed passage of time creates a tension in her life. At first she cannot accept the death of her father. After that she creates tension in the community by refusing to pay the taxes. When the aldermen go to her house to collect the taxes, she refuses to pay and tells ?I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained to me.? (Charters 170) The halted passage of time causes her not to even recognize Colonel?s death. Emily also ends up killing; her only love Homer Barron due to her stubbornness. And ironically, preserves Homer Barron?s dead body for 30 years in her house. Emily?s father kept her sheltered longer than she was needed. When she was released, she was under the burdens of relationships and love. When she knew Homer would leave her, she killed him and kept him forever. Bibliography: Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy. New York: Harpers Collins, Get more content

William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" Literary Analysis In William Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" his main character Miss Emily Grierson's deranged behavior leaves the reader questioning her mental status. Emily comes from a family with high expectations of her a sort of "hereditary obligation" (30). Emily has been mentally manipulated by her as so indicated in the line of the story "we did not say she was crazy then we believed she had to do that we remember all the young men her father had driven away" (32). There is already proof of mental illness in the family "remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great aunt, had gone completely crazy last" (32). The first indication the narrator gives us of Miss Emily's...show more content...

During the conversation Miss Emily tells the men "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson" (31). Colonel Sartoris has been dead for almost ten years. Emily's behavior not only shows mental instability but also that she may be delusional and confused. "She was sick for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short making her look like a girl" (32). Through this image the narrator portrays Emily regressing back to her youth. It is at this point that Miss Emily is being seen around town with a young contractor named Homer Barron. Emily's behavior takes another dramatic strange twist when she visits the druggist and requests some poison. The druggist asked Miss Emily "What kind? For rats and such?" (33). to which Emily responds "I want the best one you have. I don't care what kind" (33). It is at this point that we truly begin to question if Miss Emily has foul intentions. "She will kill herself" "She will marry him" "She will persuade him yet" (33). These statements were made in regard to Miss Emily's relationship with Homer Barron. Homer himself had stated that he liked men, he was known to drink with the younger men in the Elks Club, and that he was not a marrying man. In light of Homers feelings toward marriage Emily had been seen in town at the jewelers purchasing a men's toilet set in silver with the letters H.B. on each

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A Rose For Emily Character Analysis

The text "A Rose for Emily," is a story of a strange southern woman that does not handle death very well and attempts multiple times to keep the dead bodies of her loved ones. The people in her town, Jefferson, never diagnosed her with an illness. Yet, had the townspeople had a chance to speak with her daily and understand her, they would have seen that she was a crazy woman. Rather than just constantly feeling sorry for her the way that everyone did and looking past the idea that it was just her way of coping and handling death. After careful evaluation of the story, using the psychological strategy, the main character of " A Rose for Emily," Miss Emily Grierson is a delusional character. In the beginning, it states that, "A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china–painting lessons eight or ten years earlier." (W. Faulkner, 85) This indicates that Miss Emily was isolated, she cut herself off from the community and did not have much social interaction in a long period. This was after her father's death, this may have partially contributed to Miss Emily losing her touch and becoming a delusional woman. As well as, Miss Emily isolating herself away from everyone for all those years. These are both contributing factors to what may have led Emily Grierson to become this way. It is almost impossible to not want to evaluate Miss Grierson with the psychological strategy as she shows

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