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    In this story the author Faulkner uses Emily and her house as a symbol of the old South. In this story Emily’s house and how the people in town treat her is resembling the past and the South. Her house used to be on the best street in the town and the house itself used to be decorated extravagantly. Now it is an industrial area with gas stations and buildings are all around it and the house is out of place just like the South's old values are out of place in this changing society. The house…

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    A Rose for Emily: The Heart of Southern Gothic When Miss Emily Grierson died, so did the last generation of the antebellum 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…

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    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 away from her husband to find an identity and control her life. In contrast, Emily in "A Rose for Emily” longs for freedom to find love and take control of her own…

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    modernized. In William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, the main character Emily Grierson lives her entire life and style the exact same way from the beginning of it to the end. The story alternates through different eras of time spanning between forty years and despite the settings of it changing, Emily’s way of life never changes one bit. She sticks to her roots at all times, not once venturing…

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    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…

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    “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…

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    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…

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    his blood this doesn 't make them make them family, what makes the group of people family is that he can go to them to feel safe. In the story '"Rose for Emily" her father sheltered her as a child and never thought anybody was every good enough for his daughter and this affected her family life.Over the years people started to say "Poor Emily" because they knew how her family life was and knew it wasn’t a good. That’s not what family should do to each other and I don’t think that is…

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    I found my sister 's diary in her safe. When she went missing, I was in such a rush to find her that I forgot to go through the entire safe content. My sister recorded even minor event in her life. I wander if she had a premonition about her future. Regardless, her organizational skills aided my efforts to find her. I opened the diary, went back two weeks and began to read. July 3rd - Samantha is a wonderful woman. I can be myself around her. Her overnight visits can arouse suspicion.…

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    In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” shouts of the resonating mental impacts that a protected adolescence can have on a man. Miss Emily goes up against the part of the tyke, protected by her dad from her general surroundings. She is not instructed to adjust to her general surroundings, nor is she ingrained with the correct ethics of a working individual from society. Her perspectives are most clearly communicated through her dialect and activities; however, they are additionally evident…

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