A Rose For Emily And Psycho Analysis

The 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller, Psycho and the psychological thriller novel, The Talented Mr.Ripley by notable American author Patricia Highsmith both challenge the audience’s perception of the noir protagonist through pronounced exploration controversial themes via the. Through the use of a range of stylistic features, the authors aim to blur the line between innocence and guilt in order to develop a false sense of empathy for the protagonists Tom Ripley and Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). Characterisation of both of these protagonists, used in a way that forces the audience to connect with them and adopt an controversial point of view, transforms the audiences perception of how the murderer of a psychological thriller should behave. Hitchcock uses

In "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner's use of setting and characterization foreshadows and builds up to the climax of the story. His use of metaphors prepares the reader for the bittersweet ending. A theme of respectability and the loss of, is threaded throughout the story. Appropriately, the story begins with death, flashes back to the past and hints towards the demise of a woman and the traditions of the past she personifies. Faulkner has carefully crafted a multi-layered masterpiece, and he uses setting, characterization, and theme to move it along.

William Faulkner writes “A Rose for Emily”, which is a tale about the peculiar events in a small town in Mississippi. The protagonist, Emily Grierson, is an eccentric lady that encounters tragedies throughout her life. Unexpectedly, she meets Homer Barron whom she considers the love of her life. In this tragic love story, Faulkner reveals the true identities of these individuals. The main character, Emily Grierson, in the story “A Rose for Emily”, is portrayed as a dynamic character, an anti-hero in the story, and a mysterious citizen in the small town of Jefferson.

The story “A Rose for Emily” was written by William Faulkner. The other story I am using to compare and contrast with is “Killings” written by Andre Dubus. These stories are similar in plot and theme. Both of these stories deal with murder, love and revenge. Though, love and murder are presented in different ways in the two stories. The main character in both these stories are of the opposite sex and they are both the protagonist. “A Rose for Emily” is about a women named Emily Grierson and her mysterious life as a southern belle. While “Killings” is based on a man named Matt Fowler who commits a bad crime.

The point of view of the story is a third person. The amount of information the reader knows would be somewhat that of a typical townsperson, since we do not find out right away what is really going on inside of the house, or have a deep view into Miss Emily’s feelings. From this point of view, we see things as how they would appear to a townsperson or viewer.

The author, William Faulkner, has a collection of books, short stories, and poems under his name. Through his vast collection of works, Faulkner attempts to discuss and bring awareness to numerous aspects of life. More often than not, his works were created to reflect aspects of life found within the south. Family dynamics, race, gender, social class, war, incest, racism, suicide, necrophilia, and mental illness are just some of the aspects that Faulkner explored. In “A Rose for Emily” the aspects of necrophilia and mental illness along with the societal biases that were observed in a small-town setting are seen to be a part of this captivating story. These aspects ultimately intertwine with the idea of insanity that characterizes “A Rose

„A Rose for Emily”, a story of horror first published in 1930, is considered by many scholars one of the most authentic and the best narratives ever written by William Faulkner. It is a story of a woman, Emily Grierson, and her relationships with her father, the man she was in love with and the community of Jefferson, the town she lived in.

This comparative essay tends to explore comparatives of “A Rose for Emily” and “Barn Burning” such as; difference in themes and backgrounds of characters, how the novelist generates sympathy for characters, and the clues provided to readers for anticipating climax. "A Rose for Emily,” was based on a psychopath caused socially by the un-needed over protection of adults by their parents. It begins with the last arrangements of Miss Emily Grierson’s dead body. The deceased was a youngest of a family living in Old Jefferson in Mississippi. She was immensely attached to her father who protected her.

In “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner uses the mysterious actions of a heartbroken woman to express the danger of what the sum of love and fear is. William expresses how Emily Grierson is fiercely forbidden from love and sociality, how Emily cannot let go of her deceased father, how Emily falls in love with an unusual match, and how Emily looks at death as a permanent Cupid between herself and Homer Barron. William Faulkner tells a story of how love and fear are the most dangerous of human weaknesses. - Emily Grierson is kept away from love and sociality by her father. Mr.Grierson keeps Emily locked away and runs every man who approaches her away.

Emily seem to be an innocent woman who was not allowed to date because of her father’s rules, she did have some crazy or “perverse” sides to her. In part II, Ms. Emily “with her slender figure in white as she stood in the background, her father a silhouette in the foreground clutching a horsewhip.” She was never able to stand up to her father and no man ever met her father’s standards. When her father passed in the end of part II, she slowly began to transform into her father’s crazy ways. She had an interest in a man named Homer Barron but he went missing after he had returned from a trip up North. Once Homer went missing, Ms. Emily “had grown fat,” “had iron-gray hair of an active man,” and “her front door remained closed for a period of six to seven years.” Many of her neighbors believed she had something to do with his disappearance. Ms. Emily’s negro slave was the only person the neighbors would see come in and out of Ms. Emily’s house except when “she gave china-painting lessons.” Ms. Emily died and her house was opened for her funeral. The neighbors only wanted to come to see what mystery lied inside the Grierson’s house. Inside the neighbors found a room that “had not been seen in forty years” and they had found the bridal suite for when Ms. Emily and Homer Barron were suppose to get married. On the bed in the bridal suite “a man himself lay in the bed” and on a second pillow laid “a long strand of iron-gray hair.”

The townspeople felt bad for Emily and thought the reason for her craziness was because her family had a history of it. Emily also waits three days before revealing the death of her father. Emily allows the dead body of her father to lie in her home rotting away. Another crazy action that Emily does is when she goes to the pharmacy to purchase “rat poison”. When Emily goes to buy the arsenic she doesn’t tell the druggist what exactly she is going to use it for, but stares him down making him feel uncomfortable. “Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (213). One of the most extreme actions Emily performs is being responsible for Homer Barron’s death. But, after fully reading the story the reader understands that Emily not only kills Homer but sleeps with his corpse. “What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay… Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair” (215) There the reader’s thought of Emily sleeping with the dead body and her psychotic tendencies is confirmed.

The townspeople often gossip and whisper about her, and there are many things they do not know about Miss Emily. They whisper, “‘Do you suppose it’s really so?’ they said to one another. ‘Of course it is. What else could…’” (Faulkner 4). There are many more examples of the townspeople making assumptions about Miss Emily, because she is a complete shut-in and speaks to quite literally nobody. Throughout the entire story, there is almost a veil between Miss Emily and the rest of the townspeople and the reader. It is only somewhat dropped at the end of the story, when the murder and body are discovered. Nobody really even knows Miss Emily’s feelings and emotion. The reader only knows her actions, and that is not enough to assume most of her feelings. However, if the story was written in the first person point of view of Miss Emily, by the very nature of the narration, the reader would be clued into every emotion that passed through her mind. This way, they would be able to understand her, and maybe why she did the things she did, like staying confined within the walls of her home for most of her life. This may also make the ending more predictable. Instead of the reader’s initial reaction being shock, horror, and disgust, it may now be a grim reality that only slightly shakes the reader. Miss

William Faulkner presents us with a new way of interpreting the themes in which we read our stories by providing us with the short story “A Rose for Emily,” which grips the reader with every word challenging them to figure out what happens with Miss Emily and Homer Barron. “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner starts off with Miss Emily denying that her father was not dead for three days after his death. After Miss Emily realizes that her dad is actually gone, she wants to purchase arsenic, which is a poison. Next, people in the town began to think that because Miss Emily was sick, she was going to end up killing herself because Homer Barron would not marry her. Miss Emily and Homer Barron, who was a man from the town that Miss Emily was seeing,

“A Rose for Emily” is a Southern Gothic short story written by William Faulkner. The main character, Miss Emily Grierson, has a story and personality that can be analyzed from many different viewpoints. Focusing more on the psychological perspective, Miss Emily is very erratic and idiosyncratic in behavior. She isolates herself in her home and locks up her house to prevent anyone from coming in. Her home hides many secrets, but the one that stands out the most is the corpse of Homer Barron, Miss Emily’s lover. For years, Miss Emily has lived and slept with the corpse, which was unknown for many years by all the townspeople. After this is discovered, Miss Emily’s mental health and stability became the main topic of interest to both the townspeople and the readers of this story.

In the story “A Rose for Emily” we look into the depths of the demented mind of Miss Emily Grierson. Born and raised during the mid-1800’s in the fictional city of Jefferson, Mississippi in the fictional county of Yoknapatawha. The story begins in its present time of approximately 1934 A.D. at her funeral and courses back through her life to the many points of tragedy she endured.