"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. ... 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 skeleton was small and spare she looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water " (131). ... This is evident in both Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson " and William Faulkner's "A Rose for E...

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A Rose for Emily: An analysis of "A Rose for Emily- A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner, first came out in 1930. ... Another reason William Faulkner chose this point of view is that it is a limited 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. ... Her tarnished gold head on the cane indicates she did not take proper care of her possessions as well as herself. ...

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William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" uses the character Emily Grierson to show contrast between the past and present, specifically of her life as it was, in the town of Jefferson, located somewhere in the southern United States. ... Faulkner describes Emily as an old woman fat woman; he mentions a gold watch she wears around her neck. The watch cannot be seen, but its constant ticking can be heard: "they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain" (ARE 532, NIL). ...

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