Analysis of "A Rose for Emily"
This is a story that clearly shows how time ticks away and how some people are willing tomove on with the changing of times and some people resist. The small town of Jefferson was full of an up and coming generation that wanted change but was still influenced by the old traditions and by the few old timers that just couldn't let it go. As the Civil War came to an end the "New South" began its birth and the "Old South" began its death. The story actually begins at the end with the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson -the last of the "august names".(Faulkner 433) Daniel Bronson, in his essay Like the Sand of the Hourglass. . ., writes, "She had been raised to be a Southern Belle, an upstanding member of society, and she clung to her world of the Old South."(433) Throughout the story the narrator uses an ebb and flow of time to reveal details of Miss Emily's life and the extremes she was willing to pusue to hold on to the past. Emily surrounded herself with reminders of the past. "Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps".(Faulkner 426) Everything around the old Grierson homestead changed giving it an awkward prominence over its
hung around her neck were no longer fashionable. Emily employed a Negro long after slavery was holding on to the past with a fascination that never let it completely fade. mily's reply to the mayor about her due taxes were written on "paper of an story she is referred to as "a fallen monument," and later as "a duty and a care" (Faulkner meeting Homer Barron, Miss Emily feels she has found someone of the past, after all he was a archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink" which had been used in early years. The
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Approximate Word count = 925
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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