A Rose For Emily

The theme of change is commonly addressed in all forms of American literature, likely because it is a subject that is universally relatable. The way that people react to and respond to changes in their lives and environments reveals a great deal about their personalities, temperaments, and moral code. This...

Narrating the story in the first-person plural ‘we’, William Faulkner masterly embraces the town’s perspective in his outstanding masterpiece A Rose for Emily. With the rich and varying symbolism prevailing throughout the story, the author grasps three major themes, the Post civil-war South, Tradition vs. Progress, and Patriarchal Authority and...

Blythe, Hal. “Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily.” The Explicator, vol. 47, no.2, 1989, pp.49-50. ProQuest. Blythe’s main claim is that the motive for Emily’s killing of Homer Barron may be his homosexuality and her desire to save face in the Old South community. The intended audience for this scholarly article...

William Faulkner's short story, A Rose for Emily, describes the story of a woman who is not allowed from marrying due to her overprotective father, who dies shortly after the story begins. The story takes place in a small town in the South shortly after the Civil War. When Emily's...

The concept of change can instill a variety of mixed feelings in individuals and entire societies alike. This is declared through the persistant focus on both progression and tradition and the need to hold on to both ideas at the same time. Many communities, while still enjoying the benefits of...

Do you think some people can love another so much that they simply cannot bear for that person to leave? Is it possible Emily was like this? I think Emily, after a lifetime of isolation, couldn’t bear for Homer to leave her. Her father kept her away from all possible...

An important symbol from Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily” is the strand of gray hair found in the final scene of the story, beside the corpse of Emily’s one time suitor Homer Barron. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow… we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair”...

In many ways, William Faulkner’s famous short story, “A Rose for Emily” is a Southern Gothic narrative about the decadent traditions of the South in the early 20th century. The narrative concerns a woman, Miss Emily Grierson, from a Mississippi town steeped in tradition. Told in a unique third-person point-of-view...

A Rose for Emily is a story concerned with the nature of change, transition and with capacity for an individual to exist in a liminal space between between historical periods. The figure of Emily is one such character; some who who is treated as a “curiosity” and a “monument” by...

A Rose for Emily, is a short story by William Faulkner, a Southern writer. The brief tale concerns an elderly spinster, or unmarried Southern woman whose family was once a part of the post-Civil War, or antebellum aristocracy. While they may have fallen upon hard times thereafter, in Emily’s mind...

It has been said that everyone is a product of their environment. Modern psychology agrees with this statement to a certain extent. People are born with a certain set of genetic tendencies and personality traits, but their social learning and environment decide how these innate traits manifest. This essay will...

Although it may seem that William Faulkner’s novel A Rose for Emily and Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie Psycho have little in common, in reality, they share several important similarities. They have common themes. First of all, the works are similar in their focus on loneliness. Emily Grierson, the protagonist of...