How Does Faulkner Use Anaphora For Emily's Death

Life exists as series of events that all affect each other, similar to or a chain reaction; for example the stages of grief. Each stage leads to the next, however, some people deal with the first stage longer than the others. Once one passes the first stage, those that follow don’t seem as long. Anger, which remains a part of grief, causes people in pain to lash out at others to feel better about themselves. This short story portrays the death of an elderly woman, Miss Emily, and her tragic backstory about abuse, loss, and love. Miss Emily obtains an abusive father that cuts off her romantic relationships and isolates her from society. When her father dies Emily continues in a denial period but then moves to a rebellious stage of bringing home

Furthermore, she refuses to move his body for three days until threatened by the officials when she breaks down and complies. Faulkner uses anaphora “After her...after her”(Faulkner 2). Which highlights how much her mind has been affected. The narrator explains Emily’s relationship to her abusive father. Implications of physical abuse shown when Faulkner states “his back to her and clutching a horsewhip”(3). This claim emphasizes the claim through the use of alliteration “Her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground”(Faulkner 3). Narrators explanation of Emily’s behaviors,“After her father’s death she went out little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all”(Faulkner 3). Miss Emily, affected by the death of her father and her boyfriend disappearing, lost what little humanity she contained. The narrator describes Emily’s reaction to her father’s death by using the excerpt, “We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she never exerted specific feelings. We remembered all the young men her father drove away, and we knew that with nothing left, she clings to that which she has robbed her, as people will”(Faulkner 3). Miss Emily’s father refuses to let her go in life and in death by not marrying her off, and her refusal to bury him until threatened. Through the use of anaphora it portrays a certain tone of despair. Critic Strandberg talks about Miss Emily’s relationship to her father and how it affected her in “A Rose for Emily: Overview”. “By driving away her suitors so as to keep her housekeeping services for himself, Emily’s father has ruined her chances for a normal life and thereby deformed her personality”(Strandberg 7). This quote shows its importance because it reveals why Emily might become a necrophiliac in the future because her father abused