How death affects everyone differently, as seen through D. Lawrence's The Horse Dealer's Daughter and William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily.
Death is the end of life. Every living thing dies, but human beings are probably the only creatures that can imagine their own deaths. When someone dies the people closet to them are over come with sadness. Some people find comfort in death. They believe that when you die your suffering ends. People who go through the death of an important person in their life often feel like a part of them has also died. You can choose to let this experience alter and shape the rest of your life or you can overcome it and continue with your life. In A Rose for Emily and The Horse Dealer's Daughter , Mable and Emily experience the death of their father. .
In A Rose for Emily, the main character Emily experiences a hard coming change. After being the only man in her life Emily's father dies and she finds it hard to let go. It took three days for the doctors to be able to dispose of his body. She kept denying for three days that her father had died. The townspeople didn't think she was crazy for doing so. " They believed she had to do that. They remembered all the young men who her father had chased away, and they knew that with nothing left she would have to cling to that which had robbed her." (Faulkner Pg.75).
EMily's father didn't let her date. He took away any chance she had to meet a man. He felt that " none of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily." (Faulkner Pg. 75) She spent her life taking care of him in that old house. She wasn't allowed to experience and enjoy the pleasure of being in the company of men. Emily was thirty when her father passed and was still single. (Faulkner Pg. 75) In a way her father's death was liberation for her. She could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn't chase them off any more. After her father died she looked like a girl" with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows, sort of tragic and serene.
The author of The Horse Dealer's Daughter, D.H. ... The Horse Dealer's Daughter starts off having you confused. ... Then when you compare that to Fergusson's life, it is the complete opposite. ... Later on there are horses running in a field that were mentioned. I automatically assumed they were on some sort of ranch from the horses and the tobacco chewing. ...
William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily- describes the journey through the life of a civil war hero's daughter. ... Like a rose, Emily's life is pruned and nurtured by her father, Homer, and town. ... However, he only creates thorns in Emily's life. ... This reluctance is the first indicator of Emily's insanity. ... This life changing experience slowly turns Emily from a beautiful rose to a wilted rose. ...
There are many essential themes that occur throughout " A Rose for Emily", a short story by William Faulkner. ... Early in the tale, Emily's father shows a great deal of control towards his daughter. When young men came to court Emily, her father would stand in the doorway with his horse whip. ... He was obsessive with keeping his daughter to him self. ... In the title of this story, "A Rose for Emily", Faulkner uses the rose as a symbol of love. ...
There are many underlying themes in A Rose for Emily. ... Emily's father exhibits a great deal of control early in this story, which does a great deal of emotional damage to Emily later on. When suitors come to see Emily, her father stands in the doorway with a horse whip, which drives them away. ... Emily, for obvious reasons, is the focal point of the story. ... A rose for Emily serves to signify the townspeople giving a rose at Emily's funeral, to show their ultimate respect for her, and for what she must have gone through to commit such a heinous crime. ...
"A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, is a short story telling the dark and decaying life of Emily Grierson. ... Her father is portrayed as an arrogant man who believes no man is quite good enough for his precious daughter. Emily looks to her father for everything. ... A Rose for Emily shows how life was during that period. ... Faulkner tells the story of the Griersons and their hidden, mysterious lives well in A Rose for Emily....
Faulkner salutes Emily in his title by offering her a rose. ... Since roses most commonly stand for love, Faulkner gives Emily a rose in the title to show that he is the only one who has any love for Emily. ... This was Faulkner's method of giving Emily a rose. ... Therefore, the rose given to Emily by Faulkner becomes her only love. ... At many places in the story, Faulkner compares Emily to the monument, much as one would compare a rose to love. ...
A Rose for Emily After reading the story, A Rose for Emily, I set the book down and thought about the story for a bit. ... From the information gathered, I decided to write about how the author compared the house to Emily so much. ... Similarly, Emily Grierson was a wealthy woman. ... Emily's own aging is given when her voice in similarly said to be rusty from disuse. ... When Emily finally died, "the house filled with dust and shadows" (Faulkner 489)....
Every Rose has its Thorn Social hierarchy was important among the wealthy of the south. Male dominance among southern living led daughters and wives to be more of a trophy for their fathers and husbands. ... William Faulkner's portrayal of the quickly changing southern lifestyle in the short story, "A Rose for Emily," poignantly describes Emily's isolation and eventual social and physical decline through the use of symbolism. Throughout the short story, "A Rose for Emily" a gradual change in Mrs. ... Examining these subjects in "A Rose for Emily", can help one to further th...
The Character of Emily In the story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, Miss Emily is the main character, the protagonist. ... Emily Grierson had many notable traits. ... Miss Emily also had a lot of unusual or wretched traits. ... In reading "A Rose for Emily", one gets the idea that Emily is a bit odd when she does not give up her father's corpse. ... Her father's control can be interpreted in the portrait of him on a horse holding a whip. ...