“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is an amazing gothic short story. The story’s main character, Emily plays a huge role for the story as does the setting. The setting is the literary element that changes how the character looks at her life and by looking at the setting we can understand Emily better. I am going to criticize and analysis the story with four critics that have distinct critical theories. To understand Miss Emily Grierson’s ways we must summarize the plot of the story and get a better understanding of how we can criticize and analyze the setting. The short story opens with talking about how the people of the town joined together for Emily’s funeral. The author says that she is a monument or legend of the town. The women
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The literary critic Gloria E. Anzaldua is a feminist activist. Gloria E. Anzaldua is a scholar in feminist theory as well as Chicana cultural theory and queer theory. She is known for her research of gender, sexuality and race. Gloria would label “A Rose for Emily” as feminist. The story had many examples where there were certain roles that women had to abide by. When Emily was running around town the town’s people though she was acting too friendly towards Barron. They were assuming that they were having sex and this was inappropriate for women at this time. The town’s people called her relatives to come and maybe talk some sense into her, "Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her” (Faulkner 519). During this time period women were expected to get married and have children. Emily had been single for so long, with no children, the town’s people looked down and felt bad for her. The women were also expected to relay on men for support and money but she lacked this in her life after her father pasted. Emily is powerless living in this time with culture norms also pressured on the women especially coming from the old south. Gloria would point out the language and the text and declare it …show more content…
Archetypes is the image of a person’s behavior and personality. He came up with ego, the unconscious and the collective unconscious. As read in the story “A Rose for Emily” Emily had many odd mental states. She denied her father’s death for three days “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead” (Faulkner 518). Her and her family thought they were above anyone else in the town including not paying taxes. Jung believed that a mental disorder could also be heretic and we found out in the story that Emily’s aunt had gone crazy. Jung also was one of the first people to give meaning to introverted and extroverted. Jung would define Emily as an introvert. She would always stay home and never leave her house. She would lock herself in her house for months at a time with no social interaction. At this century this was unheard of. Subjectivity would describe Emily and her unemotional state of her social society. We never knew what Emily was thinking because of the point of view in the
The literary critic Gloria E. Anzaldua is a feminist activist. Gloria E. Anzaldua is a scholar in feminist theory as well as Chicana cultural theory and queer theory. She is known for her research of gender, sexuality and race. Gloria would label “A Rose for Emily” as feminist. The story had many examples where there were certain roles that women had to abide by. When Emily was running around town the town’s people though she was acting too friendly towards Barron. They were assuming that they were having sex and this was inappropriate for women at this time. The town’s people called her relatives to come and maybe talk some sense into her, "Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her” (Faulkner 519). During this time period women were expected to get married and have children. Emily had been single for so long, with no children, the town’s people looked down and felt bad for her. The women were also expected to relay on men for support and money but she lacked this in her life after her father pasted. Emily is powerless living in this time with culture norms also pressured on the women especially coming from the old south. Gloria would point out the language and the text and declare it …show more content…
Archetypes is the image of a person’s behavior and personality. He came up with ego, the unconscious and the collective unconscious. As read in the story “A Rose for Emily” Emily had many odd mental states. She denied her father’s death for three days “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead” (Faulkner 518). Her and her family thought they were above anyone else in the town including not paying taxes. Jung believed that a mental disorder could also be heretic and we found out in the story that Emily’s aunt had gone crazy. Jung also was one of the first people to give meaning to introverted and extroverted. Jung would define Emily as an introvert. She would always stay home and never leave her house. She would lock herself in her house for months at a time with no social interaction. At this century this was unheard of. Subjectivity would describe Emily and her unemotional state of her social society. We never knew what Emily was thinking because of the point of view in the