A rose for emily4
In "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner uses the elements of time and setting to foreshadow Emily Grierson's decay of life, physically and mentally. By avoiding the chronological order of events of Miss Emily's life, Faulkner first gives the reader a finished puzzle, and then allows the reader to examine this puzzle piece by piece, step by step. By doing so, he enhances the plot and presents two different perspectives of time held by the characters. The first perspective (the world of the present) views time as a "mechanical progression" in which the past is a "diminishing road." The second perspective (the world of tradition and the past) views the past as "a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years" Faulkner begins the story with Miss Emily's funeral, where the men see her as a "fallen monument"(I.1548) and the women are anxious to see the inside of her house. He gives us a picture of a woman who is frail because she has "fallen," yet as important and symbolic as a "monument." The details of Miss Emily's house closely relate to her and symbolize what she stands for. It i
progresses, grows and modernizes, Miss Emily's "stubborn and coquettish" house remains the same (I.1548). Perhaps if the story of Miss Emily had been set in a different place, her life would have turned out differently. With all the pressures from her father and the town's people, she became a very closed up and rather frightening person. There were too many expectations of women in those days and Faulkner demonstrates the consequences of such a life through Miss Emily. By setting the story in an upscale, post Civil War town, he uses both the details of the setting and time to show what happened to a woman such as Miss Emily, the "tragic monument"(I.1548). s set on "what had once been the most select street"(I.1548). The narrator (which is the town in this case) describes the house as "stubborn and coquettish"(I. 1548). Cotton gins and garages have long obliterated the neighborhood, but it is the only house left (I.1548). With a further look at Miss Emily's life, we realize the importance of the setting in which the story takes place. The house in which she lives remains static and unchanged as the town progresses. Inside the walls of her abode, Miss Emily conquers time and progression.
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Approximate Word count = 1525
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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