William Faulkner

While authors like Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King are known for their creepy writings, William Faulkner has achieved a level of disturbing that is hardly reached in short stories. A Rose for Emily is a story that shows how the insanity of one woman is able to shock an entire town, even in death. When first reading A Rose for Emily, anyone can see how twisted Emily Grierson is. Not only for the fact that she was sleeping in the same bed as a corpse, but because this was not the first time that she

Literary Response to “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner was published in 1930. This short story is set in an old southern town. I believe that this and several other combinations of events are what made the main character Miss Emily go insane. Miss Emily was a old school southern woman trapped in a modernizing society. She tried desperately to try and keep to her old ways, but the changes were inevitable. This made me feel like something was going to go wrong very early in

In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner he uses foreshadowing to tell the story. He tells of the events and the behavior of Emily Grierson. The story opens with the funeral of Miss Emily. As people arrive for the funeral they are more interested in seeing the inside of her house than to pay their respects. Over the years strange occurrences happened and eventually Emily would not come out of her house. People began to wonder what was going on behind closed doors and drawn curtains

represent tradition. The story even states, “Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care” (Faulkner 714). Miss Emily seems to live in her own world by isolating herself from many. This was obvious when she refused the numbers that were put on her house when the town finally starts using the modern mail service that delivered for free. The story states, “she would not listen to them” (Faulkner 714). It can be assumed that Emily was so stuck in the past that denied that time was passing and

eventful night. This story is about “becoming a man” so-to-speak, through enduring and overcoming two very difficult situations to view: the birth of a child and the death of a man. Barn Burning covers the same theme in a darker and more violent way. In William Faulkner’s story, Sarty’s father teaches him to become a man by teaching him that a man should hold his family’s blood above anything and everything else. The different ways this lesson is taught in these two stories are the key differences in how

A Rose for Emily A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a unique piece of literature. It has a plot which seems somewhat bland, and it is not particularly exciting. However, the ending is quite suprising, and for me it made the story worth reading. I think there are some interesting aspects of this story if you look at it from a feminist point of view. The feminist movement has attempted to elevate the status of the woman to a level equal with men. Feminists have fought for the right

The American uneven literary landscape is emphasized through Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, as these authors merge two distinct novels into the same time period in which their co-existence should not be possible, but somehow is. As American literature evolves, the limitations that were once set upon authors disappear, ultimately creating an uneven literary landscape as seen through The Sound and the Fury and Ceremony. On one hand, Faulkner’s novel

Fear of the Fleeting Moments The short story, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is the tragic story of Emily Grierson. Her story is set in a changing town named Jefferson, Mississippi, likely in the late 1800's. The life of Grierson is closely supervised in its entirety by the shadow of death. The story is not one of happiness and joy, but of death and loneliness. Emily is very traditional and does not welcome change in the least. From the modern mail system in Jefferson, to the deaths of those

In the short story, “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner there are several changes between the point of view of the narrator. The identity and reliability of the narrator is unascertainable and creates more questions than it answers. The narrator is present for all of the scenes that take place in the story, but does not play a role in the events, and speaks for the town as a whole. The reader is introduced to Miss Emily Grierson by an onlooker, someone who is not Miss Emily, but a part of the

Morals or Blood Bond Barn Burning (1939), is an astonishing short story written by William Faulkner. This story is about not only the struggles between rich and poor, but also the story of Sarty’s transformation into manhood. In the story he had to choose whether to do what was right by his own morals or to do right by his father because of the blood bond they shared. After the long lasting struggle between his father’s authority and his own idea of justice Sarty finally chose to confidently follow