Reading this atypical piece of work entitled “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner encourages a sense of thrill and stimulation within. Since Mr. Faulkner resided in Mississippi most of his writings reflect his home state, as does “A Rose for Emily”. The first person minor point of view is being told by the townspeople. The main character, Miss Emily, in this short gothic story that took place during the early 1900 hundreds demonstrated a conflict she was having with herself. I think that it is well known that our parents are the backbone to each person’s existence. Knowing this, William Faulkner managed to include through the events in the plot an underlining message mixed with a little flowered mockery. Although, Ms. Emily committed murder, she was a victim of her learned environment because of her father and the citizens of Jefferson.

This story revolved around one town and one main character. The beginning of this woman’s well to do life in a poor southern state consisted only of herself and her domineering father living in the same house until the calling of God summoned her

her all alone and a pauper”(471). Emily must have known that the end of her relationship with Homer was drawing near, other wise she would not have already had the arsenic on hand.

Following her unthinkable actions to finally take control of a situation, she invited the town’s children to her newly created studio within her home and taught them china painting. This was Emily’s last attempt to be giving to the community and in turn calm her loneness. Then “the pupils had grown up.... and did not sent their children to her.... for china painting lessons so her door closed and remained closed”(474). Citing this example is another way the town had turned their back on her. Over the years the word had got out that Emily was a crazy person and I am sure that is why there were no further students sent to her.

The purpose of the story is that life is unpredictable and we are all products of our environment. Some of us choose not to let an unfortunate way of life rule us, Miss Emily on the other hand did not have self-esteem, self-worth and confidence to persuade her otherwise. She had been ruled by her father, deemed a crazy woman by the town and lost many men that had

A mixture of simple to read sentences along with minor dialog made the story easy to understand. I felt the style of writing provided a spirited suspense by not letting on that Homer

elsewhere. Miss Emily managed to make it to age thirty still being single with only the help of her father and “she would… continue to cling to that which had robbed her"(472). The town’s people assumed that “none of the young men were quite good enough for Ms. Emily and such”(471). When the only person in Emily’s life passed on, she stood in denial and refused condolences an aid to bury her

The author’s tone carried sympathy for Emily as stated by the townspeople, when they said “poor Emily”(472) several times. The characterization of Emily was also provided by the description of her house that had once been white, decorated with a nice roof, steeple, and “scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies”(469), compared to the current

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Approximate Word count = 1495
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)