The story of A Rose For Emily is a very in depth tale about a woman named Emily Grierson who was the last of a very prestigious rich family left in a small, tight community set in the 19th century fallowing the civil war. ... When Emily's father died it soon became well known to the gossipy people of Jefferson that "the house was all that was left to her" and it was all that remained to represent the previous upstanding image of the Grierson family besides Emily herself. ... Emily and Homer start to see each other on a regular basis and this makes the townsfolk happy, at first. Soon th...

• Word Count: 995
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story of A Rose For Emily is a very in depth tale about a woman named Emily Grierson who was the last of a very prestigious rich family left in a small, tight community set in the 19th century fallowing the civil war. ... When Emily's father died it soon became well known to the gossipy people of Jefferson that "the house was all that was left to her" and it was all that remained to represent the previous upstanding image of the Grierson family besides Emily herself. ... Emily and Homer start to see each other on a regular basis and this makes the townsfolk happy, at first. Soon th...

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But now the scholars have spoken, apparently legitimizing the suspicion that "Miss Emily's beau is gay" (Blythe 49). ... He describes in exquisite detail, for example, the visit of the deputation sent to collect Miss Emily's taxes: [W]hen they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray.... ... The narrator wants us to agree with easy self-assuredness that Emily will, fortunately, kill herself or that Homer is gay. ... "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator,...

• Word Count: 872
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate