How Does Faulkner Use Textual Evidence In A Rose For Emily

In the story “ A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner starts off with Emily Grierson, the main character of the story dead with the whole town attending her funeral. The towns people are sad but, they are more curious about Emily house. Like what happened, or what Emily’s house looked like over ten years. William Faulkner expresses this by using the words “the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house.” The author uses the first paragraph to catch the reader's attention, also to loop what happens towards the end of the story. The story is about how a girl used to live with her father and lived with him until she was thirty because no man was suitable for his daughter. That was not, until Emily’s father passed away …show more content…
Going on to the downfall of the story William Faulkner shifts the mood of talking about her pleasant house to stating”when the next generation, with its more modern ideas.” in a way this makes the main character Emily start to feel uncomfortable. The author showed this when he said “February came, and there was no reply.” Or “A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which had no …show more content…
William Faulkner uses imagery to describe how Homer Barron looked like. “A Yankee, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face.” Shortly the story moves along to the townspeople seeing Emily and Homer ride on a yellow wheeled buggy on Sunday afternoons. William Faulkner even described the sound of the buggie moving by using repetition of the word ‘clop’ to express their Sunday afternoons together. The mood then begins to shift again when Emily’s mental illness begins to slip again through the