A Rose For Emily2
“The man himself lay in the bed”Reading this atypical piece of work entitled “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner encourages a sense of thrill and stimulation within. Since Mr. Faulkner resided in Mississippi most of his writings reflect his home state, as does “A Rose for Emily”. The first person minor point of view is being told by the townspeople. The main character, Miss Emily, in this short gothic story that took place during the early 1900 hundreds demonstrated a conflict she was having with herself. I think that it is well known that our parents are the backbone to each person’s existence. Knowing this, William Faulkner managed to include through the events in the plot an underlining message mixed with a little flowered mockery. Although, Ms. Emily committed murder, she was a victim of her learned environment because of her father and the citizens of Jefferson. This story revolved around one town and one main character. The beginning of this woman’s well to do life in a poor southern state consisted only of herself and her domineering father living in the same house until the calling of God summoned her
A story like this, that took place in the south during the early 1900 hundreds basically got away with murder. Even though roses have such meaning, they also have thorns. Another symbolic item about the title is that it only states “A Rose”, meaning one. Then “the pupils had grown up. Roses are beautiful with a meaning of love and respect along with hope and courage. If the setting for this story would have been present day 2000, it would have upset and infuriated some readers for the fact that a crime was committed and no one were prosecuted. I believe this caused a confused state in which Emily really didn’t know herself, causing her to be so afraid of being alone that townspeople were “trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. In the beginning Emily was being controlled and in the end Emily learned to control. Emily deeply needed to “become humanized”(471) and love someone and to be loved since the passing of her father “left her all alone and a pauper”(471). The damage that her father had bestowed upon her by sheltering her from the rest of the world was starting to emerge at the time of his death. I felt the style of writing provided a spirited suspense by not letting on that Homer was dead until the closing paragraphs. One rose symbolizes simplicity and the fact that all she really wanted was a normal and simple life with out loneness. and did not sent their children to her.
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