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A Rose for Emily
On the first of the year, the next generation of town leaders send Miss Emily a tax bill. This is a change of policy, for in 1894, the town's mayor, Colonel Sartoris, had decreed that she would...
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A Rose for Emily
This question is asking for an individual reader's opinion. You may certainly feel free to answer either way and defend it. I can certainly see readers supporting the idea that Emily is evil....
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A Rose for Emily
In Faulkner's Gothic masterpiece, there are also elements of feminist criticism with respect to Emily's character and the narrator as feminine. Emily's character Certainly Emily lives under the...
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A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" contains many kinds of figurative language, beginning with the opening sentence: When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men...
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A Rose for Emily
I think the concept of isolation is most clearly reflected in the life of the protagonist of this excellent short story, Miss Emily herself. Throughout the story we are shown that she lives a life...
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A Rose for Emily
Southern Gothic fiction depicts a grotesque world in ruin. In the two stories you ask about, the post-Civil War South is in ruin. "A Rose for Emily" is specifically Southern Gothic. Emily's home...
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A Rose for Emily
Faulkner uses a number of gothic elements in the plot of 'A Rose For Emily' and these elements add to the drama and suspense and also help the readers' minds to carry the action forward in their...
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A Rose for Emily
Similarities: They are both rather horrific; one tale is about a woman who murders her love interest and sleeps next to his rotting corpse, and the other is about a family and grandmother brutally...
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A Rose for Emily
This description of Emily Grierson seems designed to elicit our sympathy for her. We think of children as innocent and pure, even helpless, and it seems that Miss Emily—after the death of her...
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A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” contains several different conflicts. One of those is the tension between the North and South in the post-reconstruction era United States....
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A Rose for Emily
If the story were told in chronological order, there is a good chance that we, the readers, would figure out what is really happening in the text; we would be able to add up the clues and ascertain...
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A Rose for Emily
Emily is a representation of the old south. She was raised in an environment of southern gentility by a father who prided himself on being a true southern gentleman. "Emily’s father, an...
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A Rose for Emily
The townspeople are somewhat ambivalent about Miss Emily, don't you think? She is all that is left of the "aristocracy" of the town, and that aristocracy was probably respected but feared and...
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A Rose for Emily
Emily Grierson is the protagonist, aka the main character, of the short story "A Rose for Emily." The tale opens with the death of the main character, but through the narrator's reflections, we...
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A Rose for Emily
The people in town seem to be quite taken with Miss Emily. They are constantly following her "story" almost in an obsessive way. The ladies in town are so distraught by her relationship with...
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A Rose for Emily
The film omits certain details from the short story, although otherwise it is a mostly faithful adaptation. The story begins with the image of the entire town attending Emily's funeral more out of...
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A Rose for Emily
To me, the conflict in this story is between Miss Emily and society. That means that, for me, society is the antagonist. I think you could also say that her father is an antagonist, but I think...
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A Rose for Emily
The existing answer to your question gives a comprehensive overview of the thematic similarities between these two stories, but you've asked specifically about symbols. Neither story really offers...
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A Rose for Emily
In the first section of Faulkner's classic short story "A Rose for Emily," the newer generation of aldermen attempt to make Miss Emily pay her taxes. Following the death of Miss Emily's father...
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A Rose for Emily
In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," his main character is, essentially "lost in time." Representative of the Old South, Emily is the dutiful daughter of the Southern patriarch, whose...
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A Rose for Emily
In order to connect them, it's important to first examine the words in context: On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father. Upon a chair hung the...
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A Rose for Emily
The only real choice for protagonist is Miss Emily, so the choice of antagonist is an interesting proposition. Homer Barron is a bit of a stretch, since he does end up murdered by the protagonist....
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A Rose for Emily
The townspeople of Jefferson consider Miss Emily Grierson's relationship with Homer Barron a disgrace because she is courting someone well below her social status. Miss Emily hails from a...
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A Rose for Emily
The short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner begins at the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, a woman who lived in a small Southern town, and then flashes back to trace the story of her...
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A Rose for Emily
When Miss. Emily's father died, she refused to admit it. She was very unstable (emotionally) and wouldn't let the towns people dispose of his body. She was left all alone, without any money, and...
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A Rose for Emily
Connections that can be made between the life of author William Faulkner and themes of his short story "A Rose for Emily" are the themes of Remembrance of the Past, Tradition versus Change and New...
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A Rose for Emily
This is a good question. The protagonist in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is Miss Emily Grierson, and she is unquestionably a product of her Old Southern upbringing. She does not deal with...
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A Rose for Emily
As the narrator foreshadows throughout William Faulkner’s short story, the townspeople of Jefferson discover what they expected to in the closed-up portion of Miss Emily Grierson’s home. The...
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A Rose for Emily
These type of descriptions that you are asking about fall under two categories: Direct characterization and Indirect characterization. Faulkner uses both cleverly by juxtaposing the direct...
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A Rose for Emily
Once Emily begins seeing Homer Barron, a Yankee foreman for a construction crew, the townspeople begin to talk about it. Many in the town feel it is inappropriate for her to see a) a Yankee and b)...
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A Rose for Emily
Following Miss Emily's funeral, the townspeople enter her home and proceed to open the attic door. The townspeople are shocked and appalled to discover the remains of Homer Barron in the bridal...
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A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner explores the theme of death throughout his short story "A Rose for Emily," which symbolically represents the decay of the Old South and the fall of the Confederacy following the...
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A Rose for Emily
The town of Jefferson certainly plays an important role in "A Rose for Emily." Readers experience the entire story through the eyes of the townsfolk, especially as embodied in the unnamed narrator,...
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A Rose for Emily
Author William Faulkner foreshadows much of the events that occur in "A Rose for Emily," particularly through the use of flashbacks. He begins in the first paragraph when, in mentioning Emily's...
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A Rose for Emily
Miss Emily definitely considers herself entitled. For example, she refuses to pay taxes. She ignores the tax bills and notices she gets, and when local officials visit her to ask about the taxes,...
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A Rose for Emily
Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" are stories which share many similarities in terms of narrative and theme. They are both similar in terms of form and genre, being...
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A Rose for Emily
This story by William Faulkner, published in 1930, is a set of reminiscences told by an unnamed, first-person narrator; this person presents the events as if they are facts. The reader never learns...
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A Rose for Emily
It would be difficult to find similarities between the two men, other than their involvement in Emily's life, but the differences are sharp and significant. Emily's father was selfish and...
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A Rose for Emily
Being a native Mississippian, author William Faulkner is sympathetic to the attitudes and culture of the Deep South. Virtually anyone who is not from Jefferson (or Mississippi) is considered an...
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A Rose for Emily
To "vanquish them horse and foot" means that she sent all comers away, be they on horses or walking. Here she is not being compared to anything per se, but her actions help the...
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A Rose for Emily
The first hint is the mentioning of the smell that occurred. Faulkner brings this up pretty quickly in the story, only after mentioning her death and her vanquishing of the tax alderment. There...
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A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a classic short story; while the plot can be summarized in just a few words, this will not capture the feeling of the selection. The story is told in five...
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A Rose for Emily
Miss Emily's crime goes undetected for a few reasons, most of which are related to the social strata of the time and place. First, no one ever gets beyond the first floor, and after awhile, no one...
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A Rose for Emily
Comparisons: They both murdered someone, they both kept the remains on the property, they both-at first-got away with the murders, they both were probably a little bit mentally disturbed, and...
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A Rose for Emily
One of the themes in "A Rose for Emily" is the conflict between the Old South (pre-Civil War to about 1875) and the New South (1875 onwards), with Miss Emily representing what's left of the Old...
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A Rose for Emily
Because "A Rose for Emily" does not follow a normal, linear time frame--instead using several long flashbacks--it is a bit more difficult to distinguish the different stages of the short story. The...
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A Rose for Emily
The story exemplifies the tension between the New South and the Old, between a world of certainty and order and the much more chaotic modernist world, where all the old uncertainties have been...
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A Rose for Emily
The shocking ending of the story is ironic. After Miss Emily's funeral, some men from Jefferson break down the door to an upstairs bedroom in the Grierson house. There they find the room decorated...
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A Rose for Emily
Both Richard Cory and Emily Grierson were thought of as part of a higher social class than most. They both seem to be the subject of much gossip around their towns, Yet both of them were...
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A Rose for Emily
Emily's manservant Tobe could be said to represent the servile attitude that characterizes the townsfolk's behavior towards her. The people of the town put Emily on a pedestal, treating her as a...
