A Rose For Emily

             A masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning author, William Faulkner, where seeing from the eyes of an anonymous and extremely knowledgeable resident of the quaint town of Jefferson in North America's Mississippi region, will prove to be a very entertaining yet educational experience because of the author's excellent crafting of vivid adjectives and moving symbolisms-this in itself is already enough to prove the story 's incalculable worth but there's more...much, much more. After reading the piece, it would instantly strike a person that it is told from a third person omniscient point of view but if you consider the narrator's use of the pronoun "we" in addition to his apparent participation in the story it is clearly in the third person objective. Faulkner utilized the literary value of the American Civil War era - that is almost synonymous to saying "the American's at their worst" - and used it as a theme to teach the significance of the lessons of the past to the people of the future, the boon of power is in turn a greater bane being one of them.
             Miss Emily was the last of the prestigious line of Jefferson Mississippi monuments - the Grierson's. As one would imagine from the common misconceived picture painted of the life of a child in the upper echelons of society, one will most certainly assume it to be, exclusively, one of luxury and wealth. Young Emily Grierson's life was certainly one that fit into that illusion of the rich and famous' lifestyle but it wasn't all that, it was more...or less in a manner of speaking. Her father kept her on a very short and tight leach, she virtually had no social life, and every man who ever wanted to offer their love to her was turned down by her father with an unwavering dedication. She is the embodiment of the upper-class youth of that day who were born as promising young individuals with all of the world's potentials t...

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