Time, it’s what the best of us make it. Time never comes to a halt, but when it's a novel, it can change places. In the story “A Rose for Emily”, it contains five chapters, but all of them are out of order. The author uses this order that uses many twists and turns so it can stay suspenseful and so the reader can never know what’s going to come next. This is very significant because this is how the story is being interpreted by the reader. The use of a non-chronological order in the story makes the time all misconstrued but it’s there for a reason. The author uses it for suspense, to keep the reader guessing, and all together it creates unity and uses for an excellent tool for foreshadowing. One of the reasons on why the author, William Faulkner,
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The story still has unity because it has one single plot line, no confusion and it’s a single purpose that ties all elements of a work together. At the very beginning, we knew that she died, all it did was show us how she got there. It took us back to when she was little, “Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip” to when she found her second husband, “At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest” then when she wouldn’t come out at the house for years and years until she got buried. The time already prepared the reader for its conclusion because again, we knew she died. We knew the conclusion from the beginning. The writer also used sentences like, “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left” to foreshadow a new love in her life. Whenever it said something about something being gone, something else would always appear. Time order is very essential to each and every novel. Sometimes novelist prefer to enhance their story by not playing it safe with the novel being in chronological order like this one that wrote “A Rose for Emily.” The events occurred in relation to each other and complemented one another very strongly together. There are key points that the reader learns important information and it’s not hidden which is a good thing. Those imperative points can predict outcomes and builds on the mystery and suspense of it
The story still has unity because it has one single plot line, no confusion and it’s a single purpose that ties all elements of a work together. At the very beginning, we knew that she died, all it did was show us how she got there. It took us back to when she was little, “Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip” to when she found her second husband, “At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest” then when she wouldn’t come out at the house for years and years until she got buried. The time already prepared the reader for its conclusion because again, we knew she died. We knew the conclusion from the beginning. The writer also used sentences like, “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left” to foreshadow a new love in her life. Whenever it said something about something being gone, something else would always appear. Time order is very essential to each and every novel. Sometimes novelist prefer to enhance their story by not playing it safe with the novel being in chronological order like this one that wrote “A Rose for Emily.” The events occurred in relation to each other and complemented one another very strongly together. There are key points that the reader learns important information and it’s not hidden which is a good thing. Those imperative points can predict outcomes and builds on the mystery and suspense of it