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...

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...

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...

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”...