A Rose For Emily Essay

The classic southern gothic, a Rose for Emily, was written by William Faulkner with influences from the South and pre-Civil War era. He forms an enticing story with dark undertones that finishes with a surprising, yet reasonable, twist. In this essay I will do an analysis of Emily Grierson, her effect on Homer Barron, and her effect on the town which she resides. The opening passage starts off with the main character Emily’s death and then the story proceeds to unravel her life bit by bit.…

In William Faulkner’s, A Rose for Emily, Emily Grierson portrays a character that is hardheaded, adamant, and above all impervious. Emily plays the typical outsider, controlling and minimizing the information that the town receives about her by staying hidden in her house for many years. One could even say that the house itself portrays Emily’s character: dark, mysterious, and even creepy. Miss Grierson also plays a very emotional character, but only one we as readers see from the outside…

Rose for Emily is a one of the most creepiest stories that we read in class and this is not the first time I had to deal with story. I really enjoy the mood of the story, its dark, lonely and had a lot of stuff that people can enjoy. I also really enjoy Emilys character, mostly because she is in her own way a strong women character that keep her tradition. Even when the community around her keeps changing she keep it real. She is in many ways mixed blessing, I think that she represent the…

The Setting in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, takes place in the small fictional Mississippi town of Jefferson, post-Civil War South. The county is filled with families that are deeply involved in the southern culture, including the Grierson family. Emily Grierson is the last living Grierson left with her father’s house. Emily is a monument to the community because she symbolizes the community’s past, but at the same time she is set apart from the rest of her society because of the her old…

Faulkner's writing in “A Rose for Emily” has a southern style background. He narrates the story by speaking as a whole for the townspeople. The order of the story is not chronological. Instead, it is being told as the townspeople are remembering Miss Emily. He uses this form of narration to express the strong attitudes the townspeople have towards Miss Emily. Because he's narrating from the townspeople's view, the facts coming from them are based on speculation. Thus, giving Faulkner the…

Emily Grierson, a Complex Character with a Complex Reality. In the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, the main character, Emily, is very interesting. She lives in an alternative reality where the rules of the world are not applied to her existence. There is a principle in philosophy that states that the way a man thinks is strongly influenced by the way a man lives. This seems to be the case of the protagonist of the story. Emily Grierson seems to be mentally disturbed, but…

Settings create the whole atmosphere of the story and foreshadow events and character development. But, in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson the settings of the story serve an even more special literary meaning. In A Rose for Emily William Faulkner does it by creating a house that encompasses the main characters feelings. And in The Lottery Shirley Jackson does it by creating a Town Square with an eerie feeling of impending doom. Because of the effective use…

“A Rose for Emily” In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the main character Emily Grierson is depicted as a person of southern tradition. Throughout the story the life and mental state of Miss Emily is shown through gruesome and ironic events. Her lover a Yankee, Homer Barron is a dividing figure in the social class structure of the south. In “A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner displays the south and its unwillingness to change. Throughout “A Rose for Emily” there are many…

“A Rose For Emily” written by Peter Faulkner, is a short gothic story that carries the obscure mystery of denial, obsession, love, and death. The narrators, who are an array of townspeople living in Jefferson, express every thought, emotion and concern they have towards Emily. The narrator shifts emotions towards Emily throughout the story. At times, the narrator feels sorry and pities Emily’s troubles. On the other hand, the narrator creates an atmosphere of criticism and gossip surrounding…

During the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, Emily is the main character. The townspeople were always watching her and felt that she had “a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town,” (451). Her family had been around for a while and was well known among the townspeople. The main thing they talked about was how ill her mind was, especially since her aunt went crazy. She was off, and everyone was worried she’d go insane like her great-aunt Wyatt. When it came to the…