njoined in a desire to attempt Miss Emily's funeral but divided in the motivation assigned by the author". Mr. Curry continues in saying that "gender motivation splits between respect and curiosity, affection for a representation and intention to view the inside of the house". For Curry the "subject of the tale" is not Emily's character but the town.
             The fact that the gender of the narrator is not known all troughs the story is a way of hiding the narrator's feeling about Emily's character. And let the reader decide by him self. As curry says: " A Rose for Emily assert that gender often control the eyes of a story but it does not necessarily control the behavior of a characters when he or she remains out of sight." By hiding the gender of the narrator, Faulkner unable himself to tell Emily's and in the same time let her have her own life. It's like the narrator does not any bearing over Emily's action in the story.
             Curry in his interpretation put the emphasis in gender stereotype, patriarchal society and also the reaction of the community toward an individual in this case Emily. This essays gives me a new understanding of Emily's story in a way that it makes me aware of the gender stereotype with Emily is victim. And also the way those stereotypes are uses all trough the story. as curry says in page 394 " this particular narrator creates the permanent state of tension defined by bisexual writing: "it's generated and regenerated by an interaction between the feminine and the masculine, between self and others."
             In his essay, Jean O'Bryan Knight compare two American tragedy from either side of the Rio Grande and have found profound parallel between the two.(P344). In this comparison Knight gives us a very accurate criticism of the story "A Rose for Emily".
             According to Knight, the two protagonist of William Faulkner&...