A Rose for Emily vs. Odour of
This is the study of two narrative styles in two different short stories. "ODOUR OF CHRYSENTEMUMS" by D.H Laurence, and "A ROSE FOR EMILY" BY William Faulkner. These two stories have a common trait that is having for principal character a woman; however the way each narrator is presenting the personage to the reader is particular. This paper will show how the narrative treatment and descriptions of the characters will affect the stories, and the readers. The story of "ODOUR OF CHRYSENTEMUMS" has the particularity of depicting Elizabeth's personage with respect. As the author describes her "she was a tall women of imperious mien, handsome, with definite black eyebrows."(Par.4 p345) the reader notices that the character belongs to a certain social class. The narrator is not describing Elizabeth accurately from a physical point; the use of the word handsome is generally used when describing men. Men in the context of the story are regarded as being strong, hard working coal miners. Therefore the word handsome is used here implying that she might not be very physically a
H Laurence is willing to make the readers aware of the character's state of mind, in order to triggers sympathy from the readers. The narrator also shows misogyny as he tells the readers ABOUT THE colonel Sartori decision to relieve miss Emily from tax duty "only a man of colonel Sartori's generation could have invented it and only a woman could have believed it (par 3. This could explain why the narrator is generating sympathy towards the woman in the story he is relating it to his mother for whom he might feel love. The narrator in this story is biased because he can relate to the environment of the story. The author is still trying to make the readers take position by depicting the personage, as he wants it to be perceived. Lawrence was most likely influenced by the life of the miners and the way his father's relationship with his mother developed before his eyes when he was a child. The life of Elizabeth is revolving and regulated by her husband. They differ on the positions that each of them took toward women in their stories. The narrator also describes her as an obligation and a care that everybody in town had to put up with. The writer was indeed born in a miner's village called Eastwood. Women treatment by the authors, was driven in William Faulkner's story by the will to show the difference between generations and northerners and southerners, in D. He indeed brings out the feelings of Elizabeth, which denotes of a certain caring and sympathy for her. p347) in this sentence the narrator is gets inside the character. The difference in this story is that the narrator's aim is to make the reader dislike Emily, as opposed to the first story where the narrator made readers feel sorry for, or sympathetic with Elizabeth.
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