"These violent delights have violent ends..." -From "Romeo and Juliet" made by Shakespeare. The story "A Rose for Emily" creates a lot of suspense following up to a rather disturbing ending to the story. The text creates a lot of suspenseful details, lots of imagery, and finally great detail to the setting itself. With all this information it adds up to what the plot is and the structure of the story. First, is how all the text added up to the plot of the story. From the very beginning it told about how sad Miss Emily's life was, and how her place looked and smelled. The place was old and it smelled horrible, as if something had died. Everyone guessed the smell came from rats. Later on in the story before Miss Emily's death she bought rat poison, and the people must of obviously thought her house had a rat infestation however that was not it, it was for her love. Miss Emily loved a man named Homer. He came from up north, and I can tell since the people called him a Yankee in the story. The poison would be given to Homer killing him, and Miss Emily wanted to keep him forever …show more content…
The structure of "A Rose for Emily" was to be mysterious leading to a rather suspenseful, and shrouded ending. At the beginning it started with Miss Emily's death then later on it went to flashbacks of the past of when she was still alive. It showed how her life was, and everyone pitied her thinking of how sad her life was. However when Emily found a love, everyone thought she was happy, but then no one seen her or Homer ever again. With the smell of the place in mind and the details I given in the first paragraph, the end took place at her house taking place during Miss Emily's funeral with everyone sad. However everyone point of view changed once they found Homer's dead body on a bed in a room upstairs. In summary, the structure was made to create a lot of suspense and mostly provide details that can tell what happened at the
William Faulkner paints a tragic tale about the inevitability of change and the futility of attempting to stop it in "A Rose for Emily". This story is about a lonely upper-class woman struggling with life and traditions in the Old South. Besides effective uses of literary techniques, such as symbolism and a first plural-person narrative style, Faulkner succeeds in creating a suspenseful and mysterious story by the use of foreshadowing, which gives a powerful description about death and the tragic struggle of the main character, Miss Emily. In general the use of foreshadowing often relates to events in a story, and few are attempted to describe character. Faulkner has effectively
Being a member of an antebellum southern aristocracy meant that she was in a family that was defined as a “planter” also known as a person owning property and twenty or more slaves. After the Civil War, the family went through another hardship. The woman and her father kept on living their lives as if they were still in the past. Her father refused to let her get married. When the woman was thirty years old, her father died. This took her by surprise. After her dad passed, the woman refused to give up his body. The town thought it was just part of her grieving process. After she finally accepted her dad’s death, she grew closer to Mr. Homer. This took the town by surprise. Homer explained to Emily that he wasn’t the marrying type. She did not like hearing those words. Emily went to town and bought arsenic from a drug dealer. Because of this, the towns people were certain she was trying to kill herself. Emily’s distant cousins came to visit because the priest’s wife had called them. Homer left for a couple of days, but then came back after the cousins had left. Emily wouldn’t talk to any of the towns people. They wouldn’t confront her given her reputation. They wanted to ask her about the awful smell that had been coming from her house and to talk to her about her taxes. At first, they said her taxes were over looked in debt to her father, but then they changed their minds and sent her notices. The woman refused to pay them! Years later Emily had
While one of the most traditional interpretations of “A Rose for Emily” is the variety of meanings for the “rose” presented in the title and how the “rose” fits in with the story. Laura Getty states in her article many varied perspectives that many could ponder when identifying what the “rose” stands for. She states many possible theories that depict what the “rose” means, including theories of other writers that help support her own theory and also that adds another way that most might not consider at first. Most of the interpretations of the rose are all focused on the “internal elements” (Getty 231) rather than the actual rose itself. Getty theorizes about certain characters, buildings, anything that symbolizes a rose in the story as
In this story there are many clues that go together to show us that Miss Emily did truly love Homer. She poisoned him because she was afraid he was going to leave her when his work in the town was complete, and she couldn't bear to lose another person she loved. In everyday life people go to extreme measures to be with the person they love. Some people commit suicide to be with a person that has passed on and others do some unbelievable things to be with or have the person that they loved.
In “A Rose for Emily,” Emily Grierson, referred to as Miss Emily throughout the story, is the main character of 'A Rose for Emily'. Emily used to live with her father and servants, in a big decorated house. Emily was not able to develop any real relationship with anyone else, but it was like her world revolved around her father. When her father passed away, it was a devastating loss for Miss Emily. Instead of going on with her life, her life halted after death of her father. Miss Emily found love in a guy named Homer Barron, who came as a contractor for paving the sidewalks in town. The passed passage of time creates a tension in her life. At first she cannot accept the death of her father. After that she creates tension in the community by refusing to pay the taxes. When Emily proposed Homer Barron
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 came from a well-respected family line. His grandfather being a Civil War Hero and his father being the treasurer of the University of Mississippi. He worked in Hollywood to make a living and was awarded a Noble Prize in Literature in 1950. An analysis of William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” shows Faulkner build suspense in three different techniques, Miss Emily refusing her father’s death, the purchase of arsenic, and the smell of the house. Faulkner’s built suspense worked because it gave the reader a discovery to unravel while reading the story.
The story begins with the writer describing Miss Emily’s house, which was once nice and luxurious but has become hideous looking. Her house was once apart of the most select in the city, it was now covered with mold. “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street.” (Lines 6-9) With the rebuilding of the Old South her house is left alone instead of making any improvements towards it, therefore emphasizing the habits Miss Emily is refusing to let go of.
When asked about the meaning behind the title , A Rose for Emily, Faulkner never literally stated an answer. However Emily’s peculiar inability to let things go after they are dead suggests a possible reason for the title. It is not unheard of for one to preserve a rose in a closed book. Similarly, Emily preserved the body of Homer Barron in her house for years after his death. Homer was Emily’s rose. He was the happiness and hope that Emily had closed herself off from for such a long part of her life, of course she would want to keep that as long as she could.
The short story A Rose for Emily is the tale about Emily Grierson and the time leading to her death. Emily was raised by her father to have a sense of class and expectation to be treated as such. Emily grew up in an era where black women were not allowed to be on the street without aprons, this was set into motion by her father. Her house was on one of the nicer streets in the town and was kept well. Emily was raised by her controlling father who never thought any suitor for his girl was good enough. He had made arrangements when Emily was a child that he should never have to pay taxes. This was indicative of the power her family once reveled in.
In a rose for Emily I think there is one major suspense point and that is when Faulkner creates a sequence of events that build suspense in the short story. He begins the story with her death, which generates this huge idea that she is nothing more than a decayed statue to the past. The men in the town attend her funeral only to pay respect to her and her family's past as a "fallen monument”. The women in the town attend her funeral only to see her house, which has been closed for several years, however, as the writer relates to more and more events about Miss Emily, she is shown as a woman involved in suspicious activities. He dangles these supposable unconnected events before the reader without resolving them until the very end. First, he describes that there is a terrible odor developed around her house, which the town leaders resolved by sprinkling lie around her basement. Then, he relates her denial that her father died, added by her strange “relationship” with Homer Barron, a visitor to the town, and his disappearance. Finally, the reader learns that Miss Emily purchased arsenic from the druggist, which people thought she might use to kill herself after Homer deserted her but in the end, the townspeople and the reader discover the key to understanding the series of mysteries and strange things that Mr. Faulkner has presented in this fashion throughout the story—Emily has poisoned her lover and left his body to rot on her
A Rose for Emily could be depicted as a ghost story for the following reasons. The unexplained actions of Emily after her father and Homer Barron deaths, the Negro was that a spirit that lingered that eventually found his way and finally was that Emily or her spirit who could not rest after all these years.
In the story of “A Rose For Emily”, an unnamed character from the town Jefferson, where the story resides, is the narrator. It starts in present time, discussing how people reacted the main character, Emily, passing away. Being as many never stepped foot in her house, they ventured in, and were surprised at what they found.
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 reason I chose to analyze “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is because I am a lover of suspense and terror. The story totally caught my attention because the general tone is one of violence, gloom, and terror. The setting also plays an important role because it gives the reader a better understanding of the different situations. The main character, Emily, plays the role of a tragic figure that seems to be seen only from the outside. Sometimes people judge others from the outside, but they do not realize about the inside of the person. In the story, Emily is constantly judged by the townspeople because of her physical appearance, but they do not understand what she is going through emotionally. Another important character in the