Rose for emily
According to William James, "As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors." This is one of the main reasons why people in the town thought of Emily as a good, sad lady. Since Emily's family was a respected one in the town, people did not question nor became suspicious of her actions. Another reason why the town thought of her as a good person was because Emily stayed all day inside her house, she had little contact with other people in the town. In addition, they felt sorry for her due to the fact that her father died and the only thing she had was the house. This is how Faulkner wants the reader to view Emily Grierson, a poor lady with no friends, solitary. However, Emily was not the good lady everybody thought she was. She was a murderer and persuaded the whole town so they would never notice her criminal acts. Faulkner short story begins when Emily is already dead. The whole town is gathered in her funeral because it seems that she was a very important and respected lady in t
In the end the story jumps to the part in which the Black servant opens the front door for a lady after disappearing through the back door to never be seen again. On the other hand, the town is curious and some people decide to go inside Emily's house to later find out that Homer Baron, or "What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust." (465) Therefore the odor the house had was because Homer was dead all this time and Emily had used the arsenic to kill him taking advantage of the gullibility of the whole town. Everything was going well for the Grierson's until Emily's father dies. Emily becomes psychotic and the town feels sorry about her. One day after her father's death, the ladies in the town went to her house to offer condolence and also offer moral support. However, "She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body." (462) What is really strange is that the author never mentions the cause of Emily's Father death and it is also unknown why she kept the body for three days in her house. Instead, the opinion of some people in the town is heard; "We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father h
Some common words found in the essay are:
Homer Baron, William James, Miss Emily, Emily Grierson, Grierson's Emily's, Emily's Father, Colonel Sartoris, Poor Emily, Miss Emily's, Colonel Sartoris', people town, emily's father, homer baron, 462 strange, town emily, town town, house homer, poor lady, father's death, miss emily,
Approximate Word count = 968
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
