A Rose for Emily vs. Odour of

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This is the study of two narrative styles in two different short stories. "ODOUR OF CHRYSENTEMUMS" by D.H Laurence, and "A ROSE FOR EMILY" BY William Faulkner. These two stories have a common trait that is having for principal character a woman; however the way each narrator is presenting the personage to the reader is particular. This paper will show how the narrative treatment and descriptions of the characters will affect the stories, and the readers.

The story of "ODOUR OF CHRYSENTEMUMS" has the particularity of depicting Elizabeth's personage with respect. As the author describes her "she was a tall women of imperious mien, handsome, with definite black eyebrows."(Par.4 p345) the reader notices that the character belongs to a certain social class. The narrator is not describing Elizabeth accurately from a physical point; the use of the word handsome is generally used when describing men. Men in the context of the story are regarded as being strong, hard working coal miners. Therefore the word handsome is used here implying that she might not be very physically a

William Faulkner's way of narrating the story "A ROSE FOR EMILY" does not differ very much from the first story. The author is still trying to make the readers take position by depicting the personage, as he wants it to be perceived. The difference in this story is that the narrator's aim is to make the reader dislike Emily, as opposed to the first story where the narrator made readers feel sorry for, or sympathetic with Elizabeth. The narrative style in "A ROSE FOR EMILY", is very subjective and is felt from the beginning of the story. The narrator describes the house as an eyesore that just does not belong in the town anymore. "Only miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores."(par2 .p 532). The narrator also describes her as an obligation and a care that everybody in town had to put up with. The narrator also shows misogyny as he tells the readers ABOUT THE colonel Sartori decision to relieve miss Emily from tax duty "only a man of colonel Sartori's generation could have invented it

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Approximate Word count = 727
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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