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The narrator’s form of structure throughout the story allowed the audience to understand Miss Emily’s dreadful life. By starting the story in the middle it throws the audience off the main idea, showing them how she felt towards change and abandonment: “When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction.” ( Judy 1) The simple changes in town seemed to greatly bother her. The story begins with the funeral, which evokes a sense of sympathy and pity towards Miss Emily from all the neighbors. When she denies her father’s death it gives the readers a glimpse that he was her protector. As the story proceeds, it reverses to the beginning …show more content…
He restates her characteristics constantly: "She passed from generation to generation - dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse." The description of her characteristics symbolizes the lack of change in her life. Furthermore, the constant use of flashbacks represents Miss Emily’s desire to stay in the past and her strong opposition to moving forward. As time progressed she attempted to replace the empty hole in her life by replacing it with Homer, her love. Her father’s death marked the old lifestyle while Homer's arrival represents a new beginning; the loss of traditions. Miss Emily’s romance made her a victim of social neglect because she failed to meet society’s expectations. Her obsession to holding on to the past and change led to the tragic death of her romance. The images of death emerge as Faulkner describes Emily, “Her pallid complexion; her drowned, bloated body; her lost eyes; and the cold, dry voice of the tomb.” The author foreshadows Homer’s death through Emily’s obsession of death and fear of being alone when she refused to give up her father’s body. Miss Emily feared losing another loved one so she slept next to the body to act as if nothing had changed. In this case, the rose expresses the passing of time and the refusal towards
The narrator’s form of structure throughout the story allowed the audience to understand Miss Emily’s dreadful life. By starting the story in the middle it throws the audience off the main idea, showing them how she felt towards change and abandonment: “When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction.” ( Judy 1) The simple changes in town seemed to greatly bother her. The story begins with the funeral, which evokes a sense of sympathy and pity towards Miss Emily from all the neighbors. When she denies her father’s death it gives the readers a glimpse that he was her protector. As the story proceeds, it reverses to the beginning …show more content…
He restates her characteristics constantly: "She passed from generation to generation - dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse." The description of her characteristics symbolizes the lack of change in her life. Furthermore, the constant use of flashbacks represents Miss Emily’s desire to stay in the past and her strong opposition to moving forward. As time progressed she attempted to replace the empty hole in her life by replacing it with Homer, her love. Her father’s death marked the old lifestyle while Homer's arrival represents a new beginning; the loss of traditions. Miss Emily’s romance made her a victim of social neglect because she failed to meet society’s expectations. Her obsession to holding on to the past and change led to the tragic death of her romance. The images of death emerge as Faulkner describes Emily, “Her pallid complexion; her drowned, bloated body; her lost eyes; and the cold, dry voice of the tomb.” The author foreshadows Homer’s death through Emily’s obsession of death and fear of being alone when she refused to give up her father’s body. Miss Emily feared losing another loved one so she slept next to the body to act as if nothing had changed. In this case, the rose expresses the passing of time and the refusal towards