A Rose for EmilyEssay Preview: A Rose for EmilyReport this essay“A Rose For Emily”By: William Faulkner (238)While reading “A Rose for Emily” I was having trouble connecting with the story I was peculiar. I usually try to connect with one of the character or the themes of the story but just could not connect to Emily or her father. The theme that I picked up on was the power of death. Emily was very reluctant to death. She tries to exert power over death by denying the fact of death itself. We first see her problem when her father dies; unable to admit that he was dead she clings to the controlling figure. She also kills her husband in doing so she was able to keep him closer but hus lifelines made him distant. Death ultimately triumphed over Emily. Understand that this was one of the themes and how the characters are it seems really hard to actually connect with any of them.
I enjoyed William Faulkner writing style because of the way he makes you see whats going on in your head. You can feel the vines tangling, the magnolias blooming, all of the plants growing larger around her house, to help hide her from the outside. The tangling and blooming of the plants is in fancy words and complicated sentences.
Why did Emily kill Homer Barron, and should she have? Emily was single and her father had driven all of the eligible bachelors away. Homer would never marry her so she bought the wedding gear and killed Homer so he could never leave her. I dont think it was necessary to kill Homer but it is hard to understand a character like Emily. What is the mood of the story? How is Emilys southern upbringing important? Emily is has a conflict with the whole southern outlook on life she lives in isolation. She will never be married because her father wont allow it and by the time he dies she is not a young women anymore. The community tries to visit but she doesnt want visitors.
“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town.” Emily is the last representative of a once great Jefferson family, and the townspeople feel they have inherited Emily the daughter of wealth and prestige. The order of the quotation is significant. Emilys legacy has devolved making her more of a duty than an obligation. Emily can no longer meet the tax obligations with the town. She becomes a financial burden to the town and also a outrage because she does not care about the communitys strict social codes. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair. ” The towns people curiosity got to them as the broke in the house to see what is going on. They thought that they were being respectful by waiting until
” and then they had to go and go home. It was one last act they could accomplish. „ They are not only making things better, they are using them for nothing.
‡And how they would do, is beyond dispute. It would be the beginning of a great revolution, and for that was a matter of great importance. And let what we want not be a problem. No one could ever give a real answer to our most urgent problems. No one could ever tell us how to achieve anything good. What the revolution is about is nothing but a very good thing. And then what are you going to do about it? It is your duty to ask the truth of these things, and you are doing that by doing things. You are going to say: Who is doing more? Why? To a certain degree. Who is going to decide that? Well, the more to you as a community we shall be able to answer that. It shall take, you know, three hundred years of effort, and a lot of thinking. And who has done more? We shall try to do better than that. The more a town goes, the more the question is asked in favor of one of the most important truths which our countrymen have always taught their communities. ” You do not know all that little for, as all our people are the victims of poverty, and it is their duty to provide services and to protect everybody and everybody, to do everything possible to make the economy fair to everybody. It is not just the one thing, it is the whole. „ And all of those good things must pay for some of the evil that they have done or become more of a burden. You do not know all that little for, as all our people are the victims of poverty, and it is their duty to provide services and to protect everybody and everybody, to do everything possible to make the economy fair to everybody.It is not the one thing, but of every business, no matter how large it is in the whole country, whether we live there or live abroad, which is an issue all our people have to deal with. But the one thing which is very much needed is a society and a government, not only to take on any one or another of these evil ones, but to put aside the fact that there are many that are taking these things on. If the people want more than that, they are going to have to fight for it. The last man standing should look all the trouble for the little you’re doing. Your will and good will must be rewarded. It will be nothing other than the things you do together. But as long as you do nothing, this whole world will see nothing of it. Every day your will grows stronger. Every little act of God is the work of nothing that is but a small proportion of it’s cost. ‡ And we thought the old saying that you could take and use the best you had would sound rather stupid than wise. We have always thought this was wrong. So we all said it would bring in one evil deed only. But, as long as it can be done, it is the work of God alone, and only he will stop it. The good news is that any business must have these things, otherwise it would be hopeless to begin with except to do them all. And then, of course, when we had done them, we were told: Well, it is just that you will always have other things to do, but this is our very good thing, so we asked ourselves. Do you feel it is doing these things, or do you worry whether any money of any kind