A Rose for Emily If you run your finger down the table of contents of most academic collections of fictional American Literature, you are likely to find a listing for William Faulkner's short story,A Rose for Emily.? ... Rather, he uses the first sentence ofA Rose for Emily? ... And this town, understood as setting, character, and narrative voice, controls "A Rose for Emily" from opening through closing sentence. ... We could spend countless hours mining the depths of this story for a theme and other examples of symbolism and imagery, butA Rose for Emily? ... This is Faulkner's gre...

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"The Lesson,"" by Toni Cade Bambara and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily,"" both illustrate how effective characterization can shape a story and evoke a response from the reader. ... "In A rose for Emily " the narrator, a member of the town says: "Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty and a care: a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 " (131). ... This is certainly the case in "A Rose for Emily, " where Miss Emily is described as "A small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt her skeleto...

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