A rose for Emily evaluation Analysis

When Miss Emily finds somebody, though, it quickly pushes her to desperation. Her relationship with Homer Barron is a result of the life and death of her father. Ironically, he is a northern, roughneck Yankee, the exact opposite of any connection a Grierson would consider. Unsuspectingly, Emily is attracted to him, which is an oddity itself considering her lack of personality and his obvious charisma, for “whenever you [hear] a lot of laughing...Homer Barron [will] be in the center of the group” (560). He is also the first man to show an interest in her without her father alive to scare him off. The town is doubtful that the pair will remain together, but Emily's attachments are extreme, as seen when she would not surrender her father's body. The circumstance exhibits how her feelings are greatly intensified towards Homer. However, he is “not a marrying man” (561). When it appears as though he will leave her, she kills him with poison. While seemingly the opposite effect of love, killing Homer is quite in line with her obsession. If he is dead and she keeps Homer all to herself, Emily will never lose him; he can never leave her. Other such details that express her extreme attachments appear as she buys him clothes and toiletries before they are even considered married. There is also the revelation at the end of the story that she has been keeping his body for over thirty years and sleeping with it, clearly demonstrating her overt desperation

William Faulkner’s short story, A Rose for Emily, is a dark tale of a young girl damaged by her father that ended up leaving her with abandonment issues. Placed in the south in the 1930’s, the traditional old south was beginning to go under transition. It went from being traditionally based on agriculture and slavery to gradually moving into industrial and abolition. Most families went smoothly into the transition and others, like the Griersons, did not. Keeping with southern tradition, the Griersons thought of themselves as much higher class then the rest of their community. Emily’s father found no male suitable for his daughter and kept her single into her thirties. After her fathers death Miss Emily was swept off of

William Faulkner cleverly elected to tell “A Rose for Emily” in nonlinear chronological order for the purpose of creating a multifaceted piece that stirred away from conventional story telling. Emily’s story is only understood through the eyes of a condemning public, the residents of her town. Within the first paragraph of the story, it is clear that the townsfolk, portrayed by the narrator, were not very emotionally invested in Miss Emily, as “[the] whole town went to her funeral…mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house”(82). It is also within the first paragraph that the reader is privy to the indifference felt toward her. The next part of her life remembered by the narrator was about her unwillingness

Emily Grierson, referred to as Miss Emily throughout the story, is the main character of 'A Rose for Emily,' written by William Faulkner. Emily is born to a proud, aristocratic family sometime during the Civil War; Miss Emily used to live with her father and servants, in a big decorated house. The Grierson Family considers themselves superior than other people of the town. According to Miss Emily's father none of the young boys were suitable for Miss Emily. Due to this attitude of Miss Emily's father, Miss Emily was not able to develop any real relationship with anyone else, but it was like her world revolved around her father.

Emily got hooked up with a new arrival in the town Mr. Barron. People expected them to get married, however, they apparently saw Homer Barron moved on.

Emily was kept confined from all that surrounded her. Her father had given the town folks a large amount of money which caused Emily and her father to feel superior to others. “Grierson’s held themselves a little too high for what they really were” (Faulkner). Emily’s attitude had developed as a stuck-up and stubborn girl and her father was to blame for this attitude. Emily was a normal

A rose for Emily begins with Miss Emily Grierson’s funeral. Many of the townspeople were in attendance as they pay their respect to Miss Emily, but also because they were curious of seen the Grierson house that no one have entered for about ten years. The narrator then shifts back in time to when Emily’s father was alive. Emily and her dad lived together for some while. Emily’s dad declining to enable her to wed. When he bites the dust, and left her alone at age 30, she is stunned and crushed. When she declines to bury

At the surface, Emily seems unsympathetic, however, “A Rose for Emily” slowly crafts her into a woman who has lived a sad reclusive life who rejects the upcoming modern age. In the short story, Emily’s father has rejected potential husbands which leaves Emily isolated. Her isolation is cemented when her father dies. Ultimately, Emily is sympathetic character due to her refusal to accept her father’s death after the funeral. In fact, she denies her father’s death for three days. The refusal to accept her father’s death surfaces when Emily tells the leaders of the town to speak to her deceased father a decade after his death. Her behavior shows shows that she is in denial which makes the reader sympathize with her actions. Emily also begins to

When everyone had though Miss Emily had found love, he disappears. She seemed to be very happy with him. They would ride around town in a Buggy. His name was Homer Barron. In the story it doesn’t imply that they were an actual couple. As we discussed in class Homer might even have been homosexual. If this or anything else was the cases were Homer couldn’t be with Miss Emily her desperation for that companion made her do an outrageous passionate act. She murders him to keep him with her forever. I think she thinks she has finally found someone she doesn’t want to let go. She feels like she needs this and doesn’t realize that it is out of this world. She doesn’t recognize that she has lost her mind. By not only living but sleeping with a dead corpse.

A Rose for Emily” is a wonderful short story. This story was written in out of order for the purpose. This story was interesting to attract the reader’s attention. When you read this story you have to focus because if you are not you will miss something important parts of this story. This story about the father protecting his child for his entire life and her parent’s not allowed her to do anything because she was expected that she will always be the best. Her Father always thinks that no one was good enough for her daughter. When her father died Emily did not know how to survive and she doesn’t even know how to associate with others Because her Father is the only one person that she has. Then Emily got a mental breakdown because she can't

     William Faulkners story A Rose For Emily, is a tragic story about a young lady by the name of Miss Emily Grierson. Emily came from a well to do family, that had allot of history in the town they lived in. The Grierson's were so powerful, that they did not have to pay any taxes. The whole town seemed to think that the Grierson's were snobby because in Emily's fathers eyes, none of the men where quite good enough for Emily. Unfortunately, Emily turned out an old maid because of her father. By the age of 30, the whole town felt sorry for Emily because they knew that she would not be getting married.

The reason this short story is one of my favorites is because of Faulkner’s use of symbolism. For me it makes the story much more suspenseful and mysterious. I think Miss Emily Grierson is a very complex character and since she never spoke much while she was alive, after her death her life is like puzzle pieces that all the townspeople want to put together. The first time I discovered this story was for an English class in high school, since then I have studied the story a couple of more times and each time I discover more or question the symbolism. With that being said there can be so much more to what I believe the symbols are or mean right

Each piece of the story prompts another piece of the story. The theme for A Rose for Emily was the decline of the south,death,isolation among others.In the short story Emilys father passes away and wouln’t let anyone take or touch her fathers corpse untill 3 days after he died. She finally let them take the body, later she had access to another corpse she guards it for over 40 years. The body she had for 40 years was later found as a townsman who came to town to build sidewalks. After she died they found the townsman corpse in her bed. The town people believed she developed a mental disorder after her father died. The townsman was last seen going into emily's house and was never seen again, Nobody saw Emily for about 6 months and then she finally left her house but wouldn't let anyone inside her house. After a couple of months she started letting people into her house for different events and occasions. No one knew that there was a dead body right underneath them and no one found out until after she had

In “A Rose for Emily,” the rose is a representation of the pity that the readers have for Emily after completing the story. This story involves an elderly woman, who passes away prior to the story, that was the daughter of a very wealthy man of the town of Jefferson. Emily’s father was very overprotective of her, and the love that she had for him was never ending. The love was so robust that after the death of her father, Emily kept his body in the home. Because of Emily’s condescending standing in tradition and

The story of “A Rose for Emily” is about a town that pitied a woman all her life because she was always doing something that caught their attention. The house that her father and her inherited belonged to her great aunt, who was portrayed as crazy. Her father always seemed to think that no man was