A Rose for Emily: An analysis of "A Rose for Emily- A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner, first came out in 1930. ... When writing A rose For Emily, Faulkner used a first person minor point of view. ... "They rose when she entered "a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. ... Faulkner refers to Miss Emily's body as a skeleton. ... A Rose for Emily was a depthful and insightful story of the changes brought about in the South. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1291
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

1 "A Rose for Emily" "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner, begins and ends with the death of Emily Grierson, the main character of the story. Throughout the story Faulkner gives hints that eventually lead up to the shocking revelation of Emily's character. ... At first glance Emily seems like a lonely woman with little self-confidence and low self-esteem. Faulkner portrays Emily and her family with high statuses. ... Emily's father is responsible for her life as a recluse. ...

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William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" is told through a pluralized first person point of view. ... "When we saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray" (96.) ... If Emily or any other specific character close to Emily had been used, the storyline would have been biased and a completely different sense of the character and story would have been attained. ... Faulkner's methods were both efficient and necessary in representing Miss Emily. ... Perhaps this nontraditional form relates to the theme in "A Rose For Emily" in respect to Miss Emily's unwillingn...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, the narrator shows us the life of a woman who has gone through so many hardships and how she tries to live her life ignoring all of her problems. ... To Emily, it is still her father's house. ... This just builds up the sympathy we have for Emily. ... Faulkner has achieved his goal in showing us that this is a rose for Emily. ... This was the rose, someone to tell her real life and to show us that she was not a pathetic old woman, but was driven by her father and her lover to act the way she did. ...

• Word Count: 1531
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• Grade Level: High School