A Rose For Emily And Hills Like White Elephants

the situation(s) they are in. In “A Rose for Emily” and “Hills like White Elephants” the characters in these stories the characters make decisions that change their lives. The author conveys the theme of choices can take people’s lives in different directions by using symbolism, imagery, and oppression of women. Faulkner, the author of “ A Rose for Emily” uses symbolism through the entire story to help convey the theme. An example of symbolism would be Emily Garrison's house. The house is a very

Stefanie A. Thomas Professor Judith Angona English 152 9 October 2012 Character Comparison – Two Repressed Women Both “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” center around two women who are repressed by their lives’ circumstances. However, outside of their feelings, their situations could not be more different. Miss Emily Grierson is trapped in a life of solitude, despondency, and desperation. The girl, or “Jig”, is equally as desperate, but

about 90 percent of what men are paid until they hit 35. After that, the median earning for women is typically 75-80 percent of what men are paid. This repression is revealed in the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. In America, there are many causes of women repression, however the three most prominent causes are society, tradition, and religion. In the short story “The Lottery,” the

The stories “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkners “A Rose for Emily”, both have protagonists that go endure traumatic experiences that we may see as unacceptable, but they (themselves) see the experience as tolerant. These experiences say a lot about the characters, and express how they can act in wrongful ways. These actions can be interpreted as a representation of themselves as a whole. In “Hills like White Elephants”, the main character Jig, is pregnant and going

“What does it mean?”, a question most would ask themselves after reading the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. In both the stories, the authors left the importance of the events lie beneath the story, through the voice of the narrator. These two stories often cause the reader to question the story 's sole purpose, and leaves them with many questions since the important themes are strategically placed beneath the surface of the

story is set plays the most significant role in the majority of fiction pieces, since it is the setting that outlines the plot development and influences the heroes’ decisions and general characteristics. In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” the setting is raised to the symbolic level. When the outside portrayal does not correspond to what is happening inside the character, it adds a psychological perspective to the plot’s analysis. In Faulkner’s story, there

Elephants, specifically white elephants, the Bible, and the beautiful red bud of a blooming rose, all have a similar meaning. The answer to the meaning of these material objects would be curtains, tall and wide mountains like the Appalachians, and trains. These may just be material objects, but the allegory, or symbolism, is alive and useful in both history and present day. "Hills Like White Elephants", "A Rose For Emily", and "Where Are You Going, Where have you been?" are all fictional short stories

in Hemmingway's Hills like White Elephants, Lawrence's The Horse Dealers Daughter and Faulkner's A Rose for Emily The role of women in society is constantly questioned and for centuries women have struggled to find their place in a world that is predominantly male oriented. Literature provides a window into the lives, thoughts and actions of women during certain periods of time in a fictitious form, yet often truthful in many ways. Ernest Hemmingway's "Hills like White Elephants", D.H. Lawrence's

male oriented. Literature provides a window into the lives, thoughts and actions of women during certain periods of time in a fictitious form, yet often truthful in many ways. Ernest Hemmingway's "Hills like White Elephants", D.H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealers Daughter" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" each paint a picture of a woman who has failed to break away from her male companion, all describing a stereotypically dominated woman. Through submissive natures, compliant attitudes, and shattered

The story, “A Rose for Emily” was all about the resistance to change; that was the theme, that was the central concept. Emily’s family was a tradition, her herself was a tradition, everything she did it was because of what her mindset was like. She was living in the past while real life was in the present. Even when the officers came to talk to her about paying taxes she was living in the past, “See Colonel Sartoris, (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) I have no taxes in Jefferson