Ashley Nunn
Prof. Swiren
ENC 1102
February 11, 2018
For Love and Death INTRODUCTION. In “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner emphasizes the mental illness of Emily and her obsession with death. Faulkner also focuses on death around her, such that of her house, and the people she is around. The protagonist, Emily, is faced with the fact that she can never love again because of her late fathers over protected shield from unfit men. Believing this “she went out very little, after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all” (Faulkner 629). After her father’s death she is torn between letting him go and accepting her new freedom or keeping him in the house and loving him unconditionally for the father he once was. Faulkner tells us that this relationship between Emily and her dead father, shows that Emily cannot let go of people that love or look after her and she must be attached to them even after death. …show more content…
When she was young and vibrant, the house was kept in pristine condition. “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies…” (Faulkner 628). After her father’s death she doesn’t keep the house clean, and it begins to have a stench. Dust begins to fall upon everything in the house. “It smelled of dust and disuse—a close, dank smell” (Faulkner 629). As the house doesn’t keep its maintenance she herself begins to age and descends into madness. Faulkner relays to readers that whenever things don’t go the way Emily likes them she cannot keep a straight mind and essentially everything around her begins to decay. Her hair turns grey, the house is not as vibrant as it once was, and the first floor is
Prof. Swiren
ENC 1102
February 11, 2018
For Love and Death INTRODUCTION. In “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner emphasizes the mental illness of Emily and her obsession with death. Faulkner also focuses on death around her, such that of her house, and the people she is around. The protagonist, Emily, is faced with the fact that she can never love again because of her late fathers over protected shield from unfit men. Believing this “she went out very little, after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all” (Faulkner 629). After her father’s death she is torn between letting him go and accepting her new freedom or keeping him in the house and loving him unconditionally for the father he once was. Faulkner tells us that this relationship between Emily and her dead father, shows that Emily cannot let go of people that love or look after her and she must be attached to them even after death. …show more content…
When she was young and vibrant, the house was kept in pristine condition. “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies…” (Faulkner 628). After her father’s death she doesn’t keep the house clean, and it begins to have a stench. Dust begins to fall upon everything in the house. “It smelled of dust and disuse—a close, dank smell” (Faulkner 629). As the house doesn’t keep its maintenance she herself begins to age and descends into madness. Faulkner relays to readers that whenever things don’t go the way Emily likes them she cannot keep a straight mind and essentially everything around her begins to decay. Her hair turns grey, the house is not as vibrant as it once was, and the first floor is