Abby May

One of the great things about soccer is that it is not a school-sanctioned sport. To me this said that I could play another season of soccer with my friends from Socastee and Waccamaw without the normal High School rivalry between these schools. Year after year, the schools pulled pranks on each other, sometimes nothing big, but sometimes something big. I remember my freshman year, when a few guys I knew went over to Socastee and painted their skylight in their commons. When the sun shined into…

In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, Emily, the protagonist, life changed completely after her father’s death. Emily is forced to enter a completely different lifestyle, one where she finds difficulty adapting to thus, isolating herself from the townspeople. Furthermore, Emily appears to be a troubled woman who is in a great of denial and living in a world where she feels trapped while desperately searching for love. Therefore, let us examine her denial with reality, her…

“Just mention Alaska,” I told myself on my first day of fifth grade at Middletown Elementary. “People go crazy over it.” It was my first time moving in between school years and being young and gullible, I was excited for school. At the time I never realized how few go to Alaska, so I was confused every time the spotlight shined on me when I uttered that state. But I never did shy from it. I adored it. But no, I did not live in an igloo or ever met a penguin that wasn’t in a zoo. “I am…

treated herself. Miss Emily isolated herself from the community just because she did not want to associate with others. It can be inferred that she liked the attention because she never did anything to stop it. She allowed people to say things that may not even be true. She also was always very down on herself. She lived with one other person and never felt confident. She let her hair turn iron and gray which can in turn mean that she did not care what she looked like. She also isolated herself…

South. She was Old Dixie’s last true daughter. Her family, once wealthy and proud, is now gone and all that remains is a house, a decaying monument to the former stature of the Griersons. The town of Jefferson treats her as a tradition, and while there may be rumors among the townspeople, there is a pervasive feeling of uneasiness in how they relate to Emily. The narrator seems to hold a certain respect for Emily that is possibly borne out of this uneasiness, or perhaps fear of her. At the end…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, longing is “the action of yearning to desire,” and freedom is “the state or fact being free from servitude, constraint, inhibition, etc.” In "The Story of an Hour" and "A Rose for Emily," Louise Mallard and Emily Grierson respectively long for freedom from the control of their male authority and seek for self-control. However, both women long for freedom in different perspectives in their relationships. Louise in "The Story of an Hour" wants freedom…

People thought she would “become humanized” and “know the old thrill of a penny more or less” (518). This did not stop her from remembering and acting like a Grierson, who were once high and mighty people. Somewhere at this point is when the reader may start questioning her sanity. Emily is trying so hard to keep her life the same yet some events like her father’s passing just completely changes life. One could go insane from denial of…

A Deconstruction of Emily Grierson In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily Grierson is presented as a matriarchal spinster whose self imposed isolation is of the upmost curiosity to the townspeople. She is a person who has stood the test of time in this neighborhood, the one constant in an ever changing world. Her character serves as an idol of sorts, the physical embodiment of everything the community once stood for, and now has lost. The story opens on her funeral, thereby beginning where we end, and…

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner was published in the year 1930 (Wikipedia). Although some readers might say that Emily Grierson, the main character of “A Rose for Emily” was in control of her life, and she led herself through what made her feel happy, she was actually a terrifying person who lived a violent life herself. Emily Grierson was one of the Southern town’s old women who received respect from the townspeople, which explains that she was one of the well to do families in her town…

In "A Rose for Emily", William Faulkner describes the story of an old and barren lady stuck voluntarily portion. Her controlling father kicked the basin precisely thirty years back and she has never completely found her own ground. Her home has transformed into the most appalling looking home on the once most select street in the city. In advance stunning and white with looked over shades, it was in the blink of an eye encroached with dust and decay. The overall public in Miss Emily 's city…