The past can affect a person in many different ways. It is a key factor in defining who that person is, and who he/she becomes. Things that have happened in the past and the decisions a person makes in their past shape the person. What a person does with their past affects their future as well. If they choose to hold on to their past it generally leads to a path of destruction, however, if a person chooses to let go of their past they tend to lead a better, more positive life. Within the three works 'A Rose For Emily ', 'Barn Burning ', and The Glass Menagerie, there are main characters dealing with the past, some choose to let it go, others hold on to it, ultimately determining their future.
In Tennessee Williams ' 'A Rose …show more content…
She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly (William Faulkner, 1930, 36).
Ms. Emily again is unwilling to accept change. She refuses to believe her father is dead for a whole three days, hoarding the body in her house. When she finally accepts the reality of her father 's death, she has it handled quickly, before again returning to the solitude and confinement of her house.
If Miss Emily is crazy (and most critics agree that she is), Faulkner implies that she has been made so by the constrictions of a father who refused to let her marry and by the conventions of a society that eagerly filled the void at his death. (Abby Werlock, 2009, 1)
Ms. Emily was crazy, she lived in the past so much so that she killed the man courting her to avoid being left by him, as Werlock states. She was also made crazy by the members of her society expecting her to behave a certain way, and do certain …show more content…
He went into "the dark woods" which represented his future, the unknown, but hinted at the positiveness of his future with " liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing." Sarty didn 't look back this time as he was leaving. He knew he was headed in a positive direction leaving behind the pain and suffering of his past. Letting go of his past so he can move towards his future. In the critic "Barn Burning" by Thomas Bertonneau, he states, "The price of wisdom is suffering, but the price of freedom, of whatever kind, is wisdom, and this, painfully, in some tiny measure, Sarty has gained." Bertonneau means that Sarty has gained wisdom in the suffering in his past, but he loses some of that wisdom in a painful way. He ultimately gains his future in a positive
In Tennessee Williams ' 'A Rose …show more content…
She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly (William Faulkner, 1930, 36).
Ms. Emily again is unwilling to accept change. She refuses to believe her father is dead for a whole three days, hoarding the body in her house. When she finally accepts the reality of her father 's death, she has it handled quickly, before again returning to the solitude and confinement of her house.
If Miss Emily is crazy (and most critics agree that she is), Faulkner implies that she has been made so by the constrictions of a father who refused to let her marry and by the conventions of a society that eagerly filled the void at his death. (Abby Werlock, 2009, 1)
Ms. Emily was crazy, she lived in the past so much so that she killed the man courting her to avoid being left by him, as Werlock states. She was also made crazy by the members of her society expecting her to behave a certain way, and do certain …show more content…
He went into "the dark woods" which represented his future, the unknown, but hinted at the positiveness of his future with " liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing." Sarty didn 't look back this time as he was leaving. He knew he was headed in a positive direction leaving behind the pain and suffering of his past. Letting go of his past so he can move towards his future. In the critic "Barn Burning" by Thomas Bertonneau, he states, "The price of wisdom is suffering, but the price of freedom, of whatever kind, is wisdom, and this, painfully, in some tiny measure, Sarty has gained." Bertonneau means that Sarty has gained wisdom in the suffering in his past, but he loses some of that wisdom in a painful way. He ultimately gains his future in a positive