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A Rose for Emily : Symbolism "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is a remarkable tale of Miss Emily Grierson, whose funeral drew the attention of the entire population of Jefferson a small southern town. Miss Emily was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War in the south. An unnamed narrator, who is consider to be "the town" or at least the collaborative voice of it, aligns key moments in Emily's life, including the death of her father and her brief relationship with a man form the north named Homer Barron. In short this story explains Miss Emily's strict and repetitive ways and the sullen curiosity that the towns people have shown toward her. Rising above the literal level of Emily's narrative, the story basically addresses the symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect, and improvishment in the new times in the town of Jefferson. Beginning with Miss Emily Grierson's funeral, throughout the story Faulkn!er foreshadows the ending and suspenseful events in Miss Emily's life, and Miss Emily's other impending circumstances. "A Rose for Emily" tells the tale of a young woman who lives and abides by her father's strict rational. The rampant symbolism and Falkne
tsome style of the seventies"(Falkner 80) of an earlier time, now many of the towns people see that the house has become "an eyesore among eyesores". Through lack of attention, the house has deteriorated from a beautiful estate, to an ugly desolate shack. Similarly, Miss Emily has also become an eyesore in the following various ways. An example, she is first described as a "fallen monument" to suggest her former grandeur and her later ugliness. Miss Emily might have stayed out of the public eye after these two deaths which left her finally alone, something she was not used to. When Miss Emily died Jefferson lost a prominent monument of the Old South. This story by Falkner contains a high rate of symbolism thoroughly distributed and revealed by shady foreshadowing. Just as the house has, Miss Emily has lost her beauty. Once she had been a beautiful woman, who later becomes obese and bloated. In this post civil war town, the great estate and Miss Emily has suffered the toll of t! well being decay in the same way. Word Count: 1173 Miss Emily's unyielding and stubborn persona caused by and related to her father's strict treatment of her when she was young. In ending, the citizen's illustrations of both house and its occupant relate a common unattractive presence. As an example, Faulkner expresses a lot of the resident's opinions towards Emily and her family's history. The citizens or the narrator mention old lady Wyatt, Miss Emily's great aunt who had gone completely mad. Most of these opinions seem to result from female citizens of the town because of their nosy and a gossipy approach toward Miss Emily. In one point that Falkner makes, the house is described to be stubborn and unrelenting, as if to ignore the surrounding decay
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Approximate Word count = 1175
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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