Whenever I May Find Her

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.…

tradition, a duty, and a care” (Faulkner), Emily herself actually lived a rather unfortunate life. That is, despite having grandeur and seemingly possessing the American dream through how her life appeared to be, she was far from living this picture-perfect life. For example, Emily’s life was seemingly perfect as her and her lover, Homer, were expected to get married. However, Homer disappeared and the town continued on living without really giving much thought to it. However, much later after…

father had structured her life and held her back, there is the issue of Emily’s love life to consider. Her father never allowed her to have a man, for he was the only man he felt she needed in her life. This idea was so prominent that even the townspeople knew that Emily’s father was the reason Emily ended up unmarried and alone: “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will”…

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 through the structure of the story itself. These three methods of correspondence express the mentality of Miss Emily, clarifying the impacts that her protected past has had on her.…

Anna lastly chooses that she is going to look at her adulterous relationship as some sort of "true marriage." From Anna 's point of view, this really is a satisfactory solution to guide her life and also her future. Nevertheless, the true concern is whether she is just kidding herself by thinking that her partner is somebody who merely exists in her visualization. She is struggling to discover herself in a universe as she desires it to be, not in…

is dead at the morgue being drained, and the story goes on to how it all started, Emily and her father known as the Grierson family placed themselves too highly, and Emily’s father thought no young man is good enough for his daughter. As for the story, in the beginning we also know Emily has died and the writer begins…

events that took place throughout her life when her father passed away until the day she passes, the only reason anyone is interested in coming to her funeral is because they are curious as to what secrets Emily has kept locked away all those years she was hiding from the public eye. The story then goes on to foreshadow the life of Emily before she had passed, it starts with the board of Alderman coming to pay Emily a visit about restarting her payments for her taxes. This action upsets Emily…

The room is like a “tomb furnished as … a bridal” (86) suite. Among the items found in this room is the toiletry set and clothes that Emily bought for Homer some forty years earlier. But the most disturbing thing that the townspeople find, is a man’s body that had “apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace… [and next to him is a] second pillow [with] the indention of a head… [and] a long strand of iron-gray hair” (86). It is difficult for any person who is of sound mind and body to be…

moved to a new house with her husband while dealing with depression. John was her absolute everything. She rarely did anything without him and anything she needed, John was on task. However, shortly after their arrival, John’s company became less and less. At times in the day, Jane would speak of needing John or him being away and it was uncertain how long he would be gone. Jane was use to John taking care of her. He did things that were unnecessary and also did things for her she did not insist…

way because many people had a negative effect on her personality. Mr. Grierson, Emily’s father, is a formidable man. We never meet Mr. Grierson, but his presence looms throughout the story and through Emily herself. Mr. Grierson was always controlling of Emily. I believe he was afraid of losing her. It is odd that in “A Rose for Emily” the narrator never mentions Emily’s mother. Possibly to emphasize the relationship between Emily and her father. I suspect that something tragic had happened to…