William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison focused on the so-called “southern state of mind” using the views before the civil rights movement to generate their characters. After reading these short stories it is comforting to know that our country has separated its self from the act of racism and we now treat each other equal. However, it wasn't always that way, both stories a “Rose for Emily” and “A Party Down at the Square” show this and are similar and different within their genre styles and subjects. The term nigger/negro is used very lightly with in both stories, “ A Rose for Emily” and “A Party Down at the Square” due to the Southern Gothic/Southern fiction genres that each short story has. In “A Rose for Emily” and “A Party Down at
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When Ellison began the story “A Party Down at the Square” he discusses about the “nigger” who was being lynched in the Square by the southern people. Also Faulkner starts his short story with Emily’s death. Each of the main characters didn't always fit in or weren't a typical people in their settings. For instance, the little boy amongst a group of grown white people witnessing something he’s never seen before and doesn’t know how to comprehend what it happening at the courthouse. As well as Emily who had her obvious struggles with her father dying and then killing Homer and preserving his corps. Each story displays the general population and government subjective view that the government officials held within the towns, in “A Rose for Emily” the mayor and sheriffs and deputies tried to force Emily to pay her taxes and when she denied they didn't have repercussions for her because they knew that they could not. Also in “A Party Down at the Square” while a “nigger” was tied up and sent after” right in front of the courthouse. The people In “A Party Down the Square” only cared about the white folk not the black man that was burning and fire and crying for help who actually needed the most help, clearly. Both of these short stories show the absent mindedness of the southern folk for equal rights. Nevertheless the contrasts of narration in both short stories, and the characters
When Ellison began the story “A Party Down at the Square” he discusses about the “nigger” who was being lynched in the Square by the southern people. Also Faulkner starts his short story with Emily’s death. Each of the main characters didn't always fit in or weren't a typical people in their settings. For instance, the little boy amongst a group of grown white people witnessing something he’s never seen before and doesn’t know how to comprehend what it happening at the courthouse. As well as Emily who had her obvious struggles with her father dying and then killing Homer and preserving his corps. Each story displays the general population and government subjective view that the government officials held within the towns, in “A Rose for Emily” the mayor and sheriffs and deputies tried to force Emily to pay her taxes and when she denied they didn't have repercussions for her because they knew that they could not. Also in “A Party Down at the Square” while a “nigger” was tied up and sent after” right in front of the courthouse. The people In “A Party Down the Square” only cared about the white folk not the black man that was burning and fire and crying for help who actually needed the most help, clearly. Both of these short stories show the absent mindedness of the southern folk for equal rights. Nevertheless the contrasts of narration in both short stories, and the characters