Expanation of a rose for Emily

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William Faulkner wrote the short story "A Rose for Emily". It was published in 1930. The story was set in the Deep South, Jefferson to be precise. The time period was from 1884 to 1920. Emily Grierson was the main character in the story. Faulkner uses characterization to revel the character of Emily, he expresses the content of her character through physical description, through her actions, words, and feelings, through a narrator's direct comments about the character's nature and through the actions, words, and feelings of other characters. In the story "A Rose for Emily", the main conflict was an external one, it was Emily Grierson versus society.

The protagonist in the story was the town in which Emily lived in. Society expected her to behave in a certain way; like a lady because of the family background she came from. She apparently was raised in a wealthy family. The town saw Emily as "a fallen monument" after her death (414). When she was alive, the town thought of her as "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of he

reditary obligation upon the town"(414). The town had no chose but to deal with Emily. When the town started to change Emily refused to do so and it was apparent that the town saw her house as "an eyesore among eyesores"(414). The town was very interested in her relationship with Homer Barron a foreman that was working on the contract for paving the sidewalks in the town. They were pleased at first but later they kind of had mixed feelings saying that she as "a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer"(417).

Emily was very much in conflict with society through out the story and this was very evident. She wanted to remain the way she was. She wanted things to stay the way they were. Although Emily could not stop society around her from progressing, she was able to stop her own world from progressing. Society had no chose but to deal with Emily. Emily made a chose not to deal with society and that is what she did, she secluded herself from society no matter how much they tried to penetrate into her world, she didn't allow t

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Approximate Word count = 715
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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