Short Story : ' The Last Place ' And ' We Stay '

In the beginning, the audience gets a glimpse of the house belonging to Miss Emily. The exterior of the house was beautiful, but aging. When it was first built in the post-civil war era, it was lovely. However, after revolution and change, Miss Emily’s home was the last standing house on the block. This is vital to the story because it paints a picture for the reader’s mind. The interior of the house was dusty and unclean after the change. This demonstrates how cooped up Miss Emily truly is. She never

comes near his daughter. After living like this for so many years, Emily is left with

The narrator seems unable to establish direct contact with Emily, either in the recovery center or their home life. The narrator notes how Emily grew slowly more distant and emotionally unresponsive. Emily returned home frail, distant, and rigid, with little appetite. Each time Emily returned, she was forced to reintegrate into the changing fabric of the household. Clearly, Emily and the narrator have been absent from each other’s lives during significant portions of Emily’s development. After so much absence, the narrator intensifies her attempts to show Emily affection, but these attempts are rebuffed, coming too late to prevent Emily’s withdrawal from her family and the world. Although Emily is now at home with the narrator, the sense of absence continues even in the present moment of the story. Emily, the narrator’s central

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

Emily’s upbringing is plagued with difficulties. She is the first-born of a young mother and the eldest of five brothers and sisters. As a baby, she is

In the end, with her death, which is where the story begins, Miss Emily is the talk of the town. Not because people truly mourn her, but because people are curious about the life she had lived in secret, in her big house, for all those years. People pitied her, it was as had been left alone in the world and seemed to have wished it that way.

Emily Dickson is a famous American poet. Her poems are expressions shown through her feelings towards love, death, and religion. Dickson’s poems reflect her behavior as a result of her secluded life style. Her writing style was expressed on what was possible, but not yet realized, meaning she had never experience most of what she wrote. Her childhood experience is what made her a poet.

Emily was a woman that was not well liked by anyone. The story starts off with her already being dead. Men were there sort of for a respectful affection, while the women were mostly there out curiosity to see the inside of her home. Throughout Emily’s life no one talked to her, got to know her or had tried to be her friend. Everyone thought she was weird and her home had a rotten smell that made everyone not want to go near her home or her for that matter. Later in the story we find out that the smell came from a dead body which turns out was Emily’s dead husband, she had been sleeping with him. It showed that even though everyone knew what she had done and what was really going on in her home. They still went inside just because they were curious. Students became aware that everyone will something from you. In the closing of the course students read poetry. There was many poems about many different things. One that was read really stuck out. The poem is There Is The Worst and Then There Is More by Clementine Von Radics. It is about a little girl who thinks that life isn’t full of hurting. She needs to keep her body bulletproof, even her heart and emotions. The truth is never beautiful all because of what kind of people there are out there. The students discover yet again that there are people out there to hurt you. All in all don’t be so naive in this world full of lies and just

Emily Dickinson, recognized as one of the greatest American poets of the nineteenth century, was born December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts (Benfey, 1). Dickinson’s greatness and accomplishments were not always recognized. In her time, women were not recognized as serious writers and her talents were often ignored. Only seven of her 1800 poems were ever published. Dickinson’s life was relatively simple, but behind the scenes she worked as a creative and talented poet. Her work was influenced by poets of the seventeenth century in England, and by her puritan upbringing. Dickinson was an obsessively private writer. Dickinson withdrew herself from the social contract around the age of thirty and devoted herself, in secret, to writing.

Emily Dickinson, born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, is regarded as one of America’s best poets. After a poor experience at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, where she was regarded as a “no hope,” her writing career took off in full swing. Although her family was more conservative, regular churchgoers, and socially prominent town figures, Dickinson preferred a socially reserved lifestyle that renounced the traditional values of her day (Baym, 1189-93). The iconoclastic spirit pervasive in Emily Dickinson's poetry reflects her conflict with the traditions of New England society.

Emily Grierson was more than just a lonely, mysterious spinster. She was somewhat of a figure who reminded the townspeople of old days past, as well as a murderer who may have been the victim instead due to her life experiences and losses. Although William Faulkner painted the portrait of a woman who secluded herself from the outside world entirely while keeping herself locked up in her home that was quite possibly her living tomb, Emily may have lost her sanity due to various circumstances which caused her to live in her own dream reality. As the reader, the main questions I had asked were the obvious: why had Emily killed Homer? Did she truly lay with him until her own long awaited death? Was Emily the victim in her own story instead of

After studying for seven years at Amherst Academy, at the age of seventeen she went on to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary(now Mount Holyoke College), in South Hadley Massachusetts. Whether because of homesickness, ill-health, or her defiance toward the church-or because of all three-Emily returned home without ever finishing her studies. (11)

Emily has few friends. She reports that her closest friend is all the way in Michigan. She is in LA, that’s the same as having no friend at all because she can’t be there when she needs her. She hasn’t had a relationship with a man in 10 years and in the past has dated alcoholic men who treat her poorly. She doesn’t think that she deserves anything good because her mother was always telling her that she was not good enough to do anything. She has feelings of worthlessness. She feels that she is not able to move forward and tends to sabotage anything good that comes her way. She doesn’t have any children, but she is a substitute teacher, which might mean that she probably would have wanted to have children. Emily said that she had learned to be invisible. Emily is a lonely woman.

Emily behaves the way she does for numerous reasons. She is born into an aristocratic family. Emily is brought up as a Southern belle by her father and is placed on a pedestal by the townspeople. The Grierson’s are known in town for being extremely wealthy and having the nicest house in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County. Due to the fact that her father, Mr. Grierson, keeps her isolated and socially restricted as a child, she behaves abnormally. Emily feels as if she is pressured to live up to her father’s expectations. Because Emily is kept away from everything, she is not yet exposed to the real world.

Emily Dickinson is one of the most interesting female poets of the nineteenth century. Every author has unique characteristics about him/her that make one poet different from another, but what cause Emily Dickinson to be so unique are not only the words she writes, but how she writes them. Her style of writing is in a category of its own. To understand how and why she writes the way she does, her background has to be brought into perspective. Every poet has inspiration, negative or positive, that contributes not only to the content of the writing itself, but the actual form of writing the author uses to express his/her personal talents. Emily Dickinson is no different. Her childhood and adult experiences and culture form