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Summary Of ' A Rose For Emily '

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Fatimah Alzauri
ENGL 1010
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15 November 2015
Brief Analyzing for “A Rose for Emily”
“A Rose for Emily” is a short horror, tragedy story which contains an interesting connection between its point of view and its plot, moreover, characters, and setting where the story takes a place, have a portion of making it a noteworthy story. William Faulkner, who wrote “A Rose for Emily” set it to present a picture of a lonely woman from Mississippi who expires to mental illness. The tragedy in this story is how the main character is manipulated by her father; this leaves her incapable of having a role in the modern world. After she went insane from living as a recluse, she kept the corpse of a man that she murdered in an upper room of her house. The horror part of it symbolizes that she was not ready to lose him and cannot accept the fact that everything does change.
There is not much to say about plot in “A Rose for Emily” . Usually, plot in a story starts with the initial situation, conflict, complication, climax, suspense, denouement, and conclusion. However, it is not the case here. A great writer such as Faulkner could easily play with the events arrangement to add some excitement to the story. The plot in the story is not a sequence of events instead its much about telling the life story of Miss Grierson in a camera record way; that means it only shows what the narrator sees and hears, but nothing about what Miss Emily feels or thoughts. The story begins with Emily’s funeral,

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