Mississippi Lady
1n 1930, Mississippi was divided in several sections; high class, middle class, low class. People were judged by the color of their skin. Higher class women weren’t expected to associate with lower class. Not only were blacks divided but also white. The newly class freed slaves were treated as lower class citizens. In William Faulkner’s story he presents to us that the southern area was still in divisions. In a “Rose For Emily” he uses setting and diction to demonstrate southern lifestyles and expectations of women. In Yoknapatwona, Jefferson County Mississippi, 1893 Emily’s father dies. She refuses to accept his death and tries to keep his body in her home for three days. Once news got out her father was dead, the town forced Emily to give over the body so he could be properly buried. Before his death no one has been to her house in ten years. Soon after, the mayor, Colonel …show more content…
He came to Mississippi to fix the roads. Emily and him shorty become friends. Homer would give Emily buggy rides around the town. “Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whips in a yellow glove.” During this time period it was very uncommon that Emily, a high class women, would even associate with herself Homer, a low class pave worker from up North. Many of the white women that lived in near her home gossiped about Emily for liked him. They figured that by her old age she would already be married and settled down rather then liking a lower class person. The author is giving evidence that separation of classes still existed. Emily has realized she is getting old and is in need of a husband. She starts to fall in love with Homer and buys him gifts. Homer refuses to marry Emily because he like men and women therefore leaving Emily heartbroken. She refuses to allow another man to leave her again so she poisons him with arsenic so she can be with him
1n 1930, Mississippi was divided in several sections; high class, middle class, low class. People were judged by the color of their skin. Higher class women weren’t expected to associate with lower class. Not only were blacks divided but also white. The newly class freed slaves were treated as lower class citizens. In William Faulkner’s story he presents to us that the southern area was still in divisions. In a “Rose For Emily” he uses setting and diction to demonstrate southern lifestyles and expectations of women. In Yoknapatwona, Jefferson County Mississippi, 1893 Emily’s father dies. She refuses to accept his death and tries to keep his body in her home for three days. Once news got out her father was dead, the town forced Emily to give over the body so he could be properly buried. Before his death no one has been to her house in ten years. Soon after, the mayor, Colonel …show more content…
He came to Mississippi to fix the roads. Emily and him shorty become friends. Homer would give Emily buggy rides around the town. “Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whips in a yellow glove.” During this time period it was very uncommon that Emily, a high class women, would even associate with herself Homer, a low class pave worker from up North. Many of the white women that lived in near her home gossiped about Emily for liked him. They figured that by her old age she would already be married and settled down rather then liking a lower class person. The author is giving evidence that separation of classes still existed. Emily has realized she is getting old and is in need of a husband. She starts to fall in love with Homer and buys him gifts. Homer refuses to marry Emily because he like men and women therefore leaving Emily heartbroken. She refuses to allow another man to leave her again so she poisons him with arsenic so she can be with him