A Rose for Emily is one of William Faulkner's most studied short stories. It was written in 1930 and published in The Collected Stories of William Faulkner in (1950). It is a gothic story about the mysterious life of Miss. Emily Grierson. It skillfully represents the numerous conflicts in the main character's life, illustrating the effect of social change on the individual and how her tragedy is rooted in her southern identity.
The story illustrates Miss. Emily's miserable life from the town people's perspective. The third-person plural narrator represents the voice of the whole town. The story is known to all: men and women. They go to her funeral, 'men through a sort of respectful affection' and women 'out of curiosity to see the inside of her house which no one…had seen in the last ten years.' The unnamed narrator provides details about the mysterious life of Miss Emily: the archaic house, Colonel Sartoris remitting her taxes, new generation demanding tax payment, the nasty smell coming from the house, peculiar relationship with father and later with lover, keeping father's corpse for three days inside the house, and keeping homer's corpse for nearly forty years in one of the upstairs rooms. After her death, the town's people 'noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head…we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair.' This suggests she was sleeping with the corpse after she had poisoned him with arsenic.
Moreover, the text lends itself to different interpretations and themes: Miss Emily's tragic life, father-daughter relationship, southern identity, north and south, love and marriage, old generation and new generation, change in the American south and its negative effect on Miss. Emily, past and present, racism, slavery, social norms and time and its effect on the main character.
A Rose for Emily is one of William Faulkner's most studied short stories. It was written in 1930 and published in The Collected Stories of William Faulkner in (1950). It is a gothic story about the mysterious life of Miss. Emily Grierson. It skillfully represents the numerous conflicts in the main character's life, illustrating the effect of social change on the individual and how her tragedy is rooted in her southern identity.
The story illustrates Miss. Emily's miserable life from the town people's perspective. The third-person plural narrator represents the voice of the whole town. The story is known to all: men and women. They go to her funeral, 'men through a sort of respectful affection' and women 'out of curiosity to see the inside of her house which no one…had seen in the last ten years.' The unnamed narrator provides details about the mysterious life of Miss Emily: the archaic house, Colonel Sartoris remitting her taxes, new generation demanding tax payment, the nasty smell coming from the house, peculiar relationship with father and later with lover, keeping father's corpse for three days inside the house, and keeping homer's corpse for nearly forty years in one of the upstairs rooms. After her death, the town's people 'noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head…we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair.' This suggests she was sleeping with the corpse after she had poisoned him with arsenic.
Moreover, the text lends itself to different interpretations and themes: Miss Emily's tragic life, father-daughter relationship, southern identity, north and south, love and marriage, old generation and new generation, change in the American south and its negative effect on Miss. Emily, past and present, racism, slavery, social norms and time and its effect on the main character.
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