A Rose
Ambiguity-the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. Throughout “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses a unique style and plot structure to really enhance the story. He adds ambiguity and some additional style like elements to really spice up the story.
Throughout the story the unconventional plot really adds enhancement. By starting at her funeral and flashing back to her life it helps grab the reader's attention. The first line especially doing so by, “When Miss Emily Grierson die, our whole town went to her funeral:..(817)” Talk about interest. What type of great and interesting things has this person done to have the whole town at their funeral? Not only a different choice by starting at the end but it created …show more content…
One example of this is when Miss Emily buys the rat poison, or arsenic, without giving a clear reason. Even after being told, “‘But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for.’ Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye to eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up.” By her not saying anything it gives the reader a sense that she is not planning to use it just on the rats, but perhaps something a little darker, still it not being clear. Another example of such ambiguity is when we find out that her suitor, Homer Barron, just disappeared. No clear reason for his disappearance is given just, “So we were not surprised when Homer Barron--the streets had been finished sometime since--was gone.” The true whereabouts is not given until the end of the story. When it is revealed that Homer had been dead in Miss Emily’s upstairs room it creates another ambiguity. The final line of the story reads, “One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair (827).” Again not clearly saying why it was there but leaving the reader to interpret
Ambiguity-the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. Throughout “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses a unique style and plot structure to really enhance the story. He adds ambiguity and some additional style like elements to really spice up the story.
Throughout the story the unconventional plot really adds enhancement. By starting at her funeral and flashing back to her life it helps grab the reader's attention. The first line especially doing so by, “When Miss Emily Grierson die, our whole town went to her funeral:..(817)” Talk about interest. What type of great and interesting things has this person done to have the whole town at their funeral? Not only a different choice by starting at the end but it created …show more content…
One example of this is when Miss Emily buys the rat poison, or arsenic, without giving a clear reason. Even after being told, “‘But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for.’ Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye to eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up.” By her not saying anything it gives the reader a sense that she is not planning to use it just on the rats, but perhaps something a little darker, still it not being clear. Another example of such ambiguity is when we find out that her suitor, Homer Barron, just disappeared. No clear reason for his disappearance is given just, “So we were not surprised when Homer Barron--the streets had been finished sometime since--was gone.” The true whereabouts is not given until the end of the story. When it is revealed that Homer had been dead in Miss Emily’s upstairs room it creates another ambiguity. The final line of the story reads, “One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair (827).” Again not clearly saying why it was there but leaving the reader to interpret