A.) My immediate reaction to A Rose for Emily was positive. I liked the episodic approach. It gave a better way to give background information of the characters and situations. For example, section two, it brings the story back thirty years. “So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before the smell” (DiYanni 80). I found this interesting because not many stories incorporate this type of approach. I did not find A Worn Path very interesting, however. This story uses a lot of flowery language and moves very slow for a mediocre ending. It was tough to read without getting tired or wanting to skim ahead. For example, “She carried a thin, small cane made from an umbrella, and with this she kept
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This quote supports the loneliness stigma around Miss Emily. She’s had no one visit for nearly a decade.
• “They crept quickly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away. That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her” (DiYanni 81). This quote supports how much the neighborhood pitied Miss Emily for her house smelling bad.
• “So, the next day we all said, ‘She will kill herself’” (DiYanni 82). This quote reinforces how low the town thought of her. Most would suspect anyone else buying rat poison to kill rats, but the town thought Miss Emily would kill herself.
• “When we saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray” (DiYanni 83). This quote contributes to how her life was turning out. She stopped taking care of herself and began to really age.
• “She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight” (DiYanni 84). This quote supports how sheltered and disassociated Miss Emily was. She died somewhere with little sunlight and with no one around …show more content…
I think the rose symbolizes her relationships and people around her. One rose would sum up the amount of people she had in her life. Perhaps it symbolizes her dead husband who was dead. “The man himself lay in the bed” (DiYanni 84). The only person she cared about and cared about her was dead. They also found her hair in the bed lying next to him. I believe meaning of rose in the title symbolizes the amount of people Miss Emily had in her life.
D.) I think Faulkner told the story in “we” rather than “I” to account for the entire community. Faulkner wanted to make it seem like the whole community is watching her rather than just one person. This is significant because it shows how irregular her actions are. For example, “So, the next day we all said, ‘She will kill herself’” (DiYanni 82). The whole community noticed she was buying poison and, to me, it made the event much more suspenseful and intriguing. Whereas if it were just one person noticing it would be subtler and less important to me because its only one person’s opinion.
This quote supports the loneliness stigma around Miss Emily. She’s had no one visit for nearly a decade.
• “They crept quickly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away. That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her” (DiYanni 81). This quote supports how much the neighborhood pitied Miss Emily for her house smelling bad.
• “So, the next day we all said, ‘She will kill herself’” (DiYanni 82). This quote reinforces how low the town thought of her. Most would suspect anyone else buying rat poison to kill rats, but the town thought Miss Emily would kill herself.
• “When we saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray” (DiYanni 83). This quote contributes to how her life was turning out. She stopped taking care of herself and began to really age.
• “She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight” (DiYanni 84). This quote supports how sheltered and disassociated Miss Emily was. She died somewhere with little sunlight and with no one around …show more content…
I think the rose symbolizes her relationships and people around her. One rose would sum up the amount of people she had in her life. Perhaps it symbolizes her dead husband who was dead. “The man himself lay in the bed” (DiYanni 84). The only person she cared about and cared about her was dead. They also found her hair in the bed lying next to him. I believe meaning of rose in the title symbolizes the amount of people Miss Emily had in her life.
D.) I think Faulkner told the story in “we” rather than “I” to account for the entire community. Faulkner wanted to make it seem like the whole community is watching her rather than just one person. This is significant because it shows how irregular her actions are. For example, “So, the next day we all said, ‘She will kill herself’” (DiYanni 82). The whole community noticed she was buying poison and, to me, it made the event much more suspenseful and intriguing. Whereas if it were just one person noticing it would be subtler and less important to me because its only one person’s opinion.