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    A&P + A Rose for Emily “A&P” by John Updike and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner are two stories that are unequivocally divergent and bizarre. These stories may be odd but one similarity, they do share is the three-act structure. When following the three-act structure, it helps some authors to develop and follow a structure, in developing a better storyline more effectively. After reading A&P in comparison to A Rose for Emily, both share an overarching theme; in the end, an analysis of

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    Throughout every story, every author had reflected their particular own life as themes in their stories where the character considers about authors’ regular life like family, friends, works and the media. Most authors can relate their life experiences as an important theme that resemble the character's stories where they recall their past memories in their life from the cheerful recollections where they feel the excitement with their parents or friends to depression and painful memories that they

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    LUST. Having read the story written by Susan Minot we come across a rather complicated character, to be precise the narrator herself. The girl in the story has been studying in the boarding school. It is the educational establishment of close type, so the process of growing proceeds differently. For example if we compare the girls from public schools and the girls from boarding schools the latest will be more dissolute. The main reason for this is the closed social environment which fluencies the

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    A Rose for Emily begins with and ends with the death of Miss Emily Grierson, who was certainly a strong, strange character, and described as a monument to the people of her town and a character analysis on her can go in any number of directions. She had to overcome many difficulties in every step of her life. Therefore, every step of her life presents her characteristics in different parts of the story, but yet leaves the readers pondering…Who is Miss Emily Grierson? In the beginning of the story

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    “A Rose for Emily” is a short story in which William Faulkner, the author uses manipulation of time and the perspective of the townspeople to present the life of a seemingly psychotic titular character, Emily Grierson. Emily, throughout her life, faces the hardships of loneliness and disconnection in life through the deaths of her loved ones and the coming of a transforming society. When Emily’s father dies, she loses the only person that was ever associated with her, until she finally finds love

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    “A Rose for Emily” The setting is usually represented by the simplicity of a place and time. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner expands setting into something much more. The setting goes far beyond just the time and place, it involves the people and objects that surround Emily throughout the story. Faulkner uses those objects and people to show how Emily struggles with accepting the present and leaving the past behind. In the second paragraph, Faulkner refers to Emily’s house and what it had once

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    In the short story A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner. The Character I used was Miss Emily Grierson, which is the main characters in A Rose for Emily written by William Faulkner. She defied convention because of the unexpected and usual things she did after the death of her father. It showed Miss Emily’s attraction for the dead. She refused to accept the fact that her father died telling the towns people he was alive. She was in complete denial by holding on to her father’s corpse

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    The beginning of “A Rose for Emily” is marked by the death of Emily Grierson; a stubborn woman possessing a dark secret, unbeknownst to the townspeople, who are completely engrossed in her isolation and archaic traditions. After her funeral, a few citizens break down the door of a locked room, only to uncover a dusty bridal room and the deceased body of Homer Barron – Emily’s lover. The townspeople people are left blindsided and helpless at her vile action. How could they suspect this to happen?

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    Miss. Emily and Mrs. Mallard What are characteristics of two women from different stories have in common. Each lady lived in different geographic area from one another, but both stories had shown the similar reflection of their lives style back to that early century. Miss. Emily from “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner was a single woman who grew up in a wealthy family and was the only child of Griesons. However, Emily was unlucky person. She did not enjoy her life that much as the family’s business

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    most recognized and widely studied poet today. Born in December 10, 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson was one of three children to Edward Dickinson and his wife, Emily Dickinson. According to Pettinger, Dickinson’s roots trace back to her Puritan ancestors from England in the 17th century, who later immigrated to America to freely exercise their religion (Pettinger, The Biography of Emily Dickinson). Dickinson was a quiet, intelligent individual, excelling in Amherst Academy, a school

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