Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Faukner's "A Rose For Emily" Summary
In William Faukners story "A Rose for Emily", he talks about life for the South after the Civil War. Mostly this is evolving around a woman name Miss Emily who has just become dead broke in money like many others after the Civil War. In Miss Emily's case she is actually a represnetation of the depression going around in the New South because many people did not have a lot of money in the South because Slaves did all of the work while they lived in the high life. Miss Emily is liing the life of Sadness after her father died,for he kept her in the house and away from boys. Miss Emily soon from these experiences thought she was to good to date. To make matters worse she soon meets a Northerner, a mna by the name of Homer Barron. The Town which had respected her for a long time thought they would date for a long time but they hated it because Homer was a Northerner. Many years pass and she had lost Homer but made it look like they tied the Knot. The years went by and she aged terribly and when she finally did die she had never told people her secret of Homer's body in the bedroom. The Symbolism of Miss Emily is that pity,depression, and loss had effected the south. This just proves that the SOuth was never the Same as it was after the Civil War.
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"A rose for Emily" is a short story that uses imagery, and characterization to capture the true elemet of "painting a picture" literature.
ReplyDeleteIt makes no difference on whether you like the story or not, "A rose for Emily" taught a lesson of how situational irony is the things that make our (Emily's) life. Emily longed for a man, and with her fathers death and the one man she loved she couldn't have. She knew she needed to find a away to get the "Yankee". Through love, and death Emily went through great turmoil and (a sence of smell) to keep and to have the one she loved. This sounds familiar in most stories of forbidden love. But "A rose for Emily" is slightly different inthe sence that phsycodisy doesn't came lightly.
"A Rose for Emily" By William Faulkner is one of those short stories that is deffinitely different. Faulker uses setting and different narritive point of views to get to story the way he wants people to veiw it.
ReplyDeleteEmily is characterized as a girl who grows into woman who is very shelterd because of her yankee father who in a way treats her like a child. When her father dies she has nothing left because he always thought no one else was good for her. Emily meets a man who really is not as in love with her as she wishes and is almost a foil character to her father. In the end, you will find it quite different than what you espected I think.