The Story Of An Hour And A Rose For Emily Literary Analysis

The expected life style of women in that this period was; cooking, cleaning, mingling, taking care of the male and other sexist responsibilities. In some cases these women had servants to help with their female duties in the household. The woman in this time in history were always the inferior to the males. This can be noted in Emily’s situation with her controlling father and again with Louise because the reader gets a sense of inferiority and that she does not want to continue living with her husband. Male dominance is depicted in both of these short stories.

In William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily,” the speaker gives specific details involving the setting. He shares with us the crucial information to understand the story’s true value. In the story, the setting helps the readers comprehend when and where to place exactly why some things in the story happen for a reason and to make it a vivid adventure. Symbolism also plays a part in making the story one to remember. In “A Rose for Emily,” the setting and symbols both act as vital roles by describing important items that symbolize a greater meaning and placing the time period in which it is set.

     In the short story A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner there is a very interesting character. Her Name is Emily Grierson and she is a rich southern gentile. All her life it seems that she was raised at a standard that was above the rest. By living such a secluded and controlled life it set her up for the happenings in her future.

However, Louise is not oblivious to this, she is clearly aware of her marriage and her surroundings. We see this when Louise first hears the news about Brently's death. Unlike most women who find themselves in denial after being told something of this magnitude, "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (paragraph 3). Paragraph three also clarifies this by adding, "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance." Though Louise was different from most women in her reaction to Brently's sudden death, she was indeed similar when considering the nature of her marriage. The words "abandon" and "escape", in paragraph eleven, suggest that Louise was imprisoned by her marriage to Brently. Later she says, "There would be no one to live for during those coming years." (paragraph 14). This statement relates to the nineteenth century myth that women have only one purpose; to live for their husbands alone and be treated as property. Chopin even goes as far to say that, "There would be no powerful will sending her in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature." (paragraph 14). This shows that Louise was aware of the situation in her marriage.

Emily’s behavior takes another dramatic strange twist when she visits the druggist and requests some poison. The druggist asked Miss Emily “What kind? For rats and such?” (33). to which Emily responds “I want the best one you have. I don’t care what kind” (33). It is at this point that we truly begin to question if Miss Emily has foul intentions.

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.

In the short stories Story of an Hour and A Rose for Emily, the two main characters Louise Mallard and Emily Grierson are both similar and dissimilar. These two characters lived in similar ideological societies and they shared a similar pattern of development. But also they differed in their goals and how they thought they could achieve their goals.

William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a very chilling story that opens with a brief first-person account of the funeral of Emily Grierson who is an old widow. Her father died when Emily was about thirty and she refused to accept that he was dead for three days. Mr. Grierson choked Emily’s social ability. After a life of having potential husbands rejected by her father, she spends time after his death with a newcomer, Homer Barron who is a northern laborer. Emily buys arsenic from a shop in town for no

William Faulkner is a well-known author, whose writing belongs in the Realism era in the American Literary Canon. His writing was influence by his Southern upbringing, often setting his stories in the fictional Southern town, Yoknapatawpha County. “A Rose for Emily” was one of Faulkner’s first published pieces and displays many of the now signature characteristics of Faulkner’s writing. The short story provides commentary through the use of many symbols. In William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily”, the author uses the townspeople as a representation of societal expectations and judgments, Emily and her house as symbols for the past, and Homer’s corpse as a physical representation of the fear of loneliness.

William Faulkner has done a wonderful work in his essay “A Rose for Emily.” Faulkner uses symbols, settings, character development, and other literary devices to express the life of Emily and the behavior of the people of Jefferson town towards her. By reading the essay, the audience cannot really figure out who the narrator is. It seems like the narrator can be the town’s collective voice. The fact that the narrator uses collective pronoun we supports the theory that the narrator is describing the life of “Miss Emily” on behalf of the townspeople. Faulkner has used the flashback device in his essay to make it more interesting. The story begins with the portrayal of Emily’s funeral and it moves to her past and at the end the readers realize that the funeral is a flashback as well. The story starts with the death of Miss Emily when he was seventy-four years old and it takes us back when she is a young and attractive girl.

The short story “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, tells the life of a lady that lived in a small town. Faulkner takes the reader through the life of Miss Emily through the eyes of the townspeople rather than Miss Emily herself. The author uses specific literary devices to help the mood be better viewed by the reader. Faulkner uses devices such as: setting, flashbacks, and symbolism to help create the overall mood in “A Rose for Emily”. Setting is defined as the place or different surroundings where an event takes place in a story.

The characters of the story of an hour and a rose for Emily, show how two fragile women, Emily , and Louise, has been obscured in a world that was created by societies. Louise and Emily were in similar society. Also, these two women were different in the way they tried to get their freedom... And their mental health problems distant them. Despite these women share certain qualities that make similar, also they have their

William Faulkner is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Although he was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897 he moved to Oxford, Mississippi before his fifth birthday. Faulkner belonged to a once-wealthy family of former plantation owners (eNotes.com, Inc., 2012). He spent his boyhood hunting and fishing in and around Lafayette County (eNotes.com, Inc., 2012). William Faulkner based most of his stories and characters closely to his life and the ones that had the greatest influence in his life. The South’s historical legacy is what Faulkner often wrote his novels based on and that it what helped him gain recognition. Faulkner moved around to

Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and William Faulkner's "A Rosefor Emily" both characterize the nature of marriage and womanhood bydelving into the psyches of their female protagonists. Also, althoughChopin makes no clear reference to geographic locale in "The Story of anHour," both authors usually set their stories in the American South, whichimpacts these characterizations. These two tales share many other points ofreference in common. For instance, Mrs. Mallard in "The Story of an Hour"and Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily" die at the end of the story, andboth deaths are in some way related to how the women felt about their malepartners. In fact, in both cases, the women

“Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors” stated by Evelyn Cunningham. Throughout history women have been known not to have freedom or independence to anything without the control of their husbands. The short stories “ A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “ The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin the two main characters Emily Grierson and Louise Mallard are both similar on how they want freedom from the dominant men in their lives, but also dissimilar in how they achieve their happy ending. In “ The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard wishes to be free from her marriage while, in “ A Rose for Emily”, Emily wants to get married. One woman seeks the love a man and the other wishes