William Faulkner and Eudora Welty was born in different centuries, but their book, “A Rose for Emily” and “Why I live at the PO” have many kinds of similarities and differences throughout the story. Both stories have similar settings which takes place in a small town in a South part of United States. We could see that the story have similarities in the places, but both story takes place in different decades. On the point-of-view, in “A Rose for Emily” has first-person while in “Why I live at the PO” has third-person and both story have different narrator. Usually, different story has different main protagonist. The protagonist of “A Rose for Emily” is Emily Grierson and “Why I live at the PO” is the sister. Each story has different author …show more content…
and different traits which can lead into compare and contrast if we analyze the story. In the story, “A Rose for Emily” and “Why I live at the PO”, compare and contrast took place. Both of the stories take place in a small town in the Southern area of the United States, but they are in different decades. Southern area was poor due to the war that they lose. “A Rose for Emily” takes place in Mississippi County, Yoknapatawpha during 1900 while “Why I live at the PO” takes place in China Grove, Mississippi during 1929. Due to differences in decades, each protagonist has huge differences of living and surroundings. The protagonist of “A Rose for Emily”, Emily Grierson, live in a unique large house which is the last remnant of the medieval era on a large neighborhood. Moreover, Emily is a wealthy woman who could do anything she wants as her family and has a servant. Emily’s family is so powerful that she could avoid paying taxes legally. However, the protagonist of “Why I live at the PO”, sister, live in a small house which in the small neighborhood. Due to her father, she can work in the post office. Sister has a family whom don’t support her, although she works hard for her own family. This creates differences between settings of the story as the protagonist live with different level of wealthiness. In addition, influential family has great impact on their protagonist's life in the traditional society. There are different kinds of point-of-view; first, second and third.
In “A Rose for Emily”, the point-of-view is in third-person, but the narrator of the story is not given. Throughout the story, the narrator use “They”, but sometimes the narrator tend to change to first-person and use “We” instead of “They”. When the narrator manage to use the word “We”, they refers it to the townspeople. By using the word “We”, the narrator changes his or her thoughts to the townspeople that make his ideas into a belief in the society. The point of the narrator talk about this story is to tell us the reason of Emily’s death. Just like the protagonist, the narrator is also a mysterious person that doesn’t want to reveal his or her identity. According to the story, the narrator seems understand and care about Emily. The narrator called her as “Miss Emily” whenever s/he states her. In “Why I live at the PO”, the point-of-view is in first person and the sister as the narrator. Throughout the story, the narrator always writes the story with “I” instead of “he” or “you”. The main reason of the narrator to talk about the story is to tell us how there is a conflict in the family. The narrator feels that she is shunned by her family, although she is the breadwinner in her family. Sister can be called as an unreliable narrator as she wants to have revenge on her own sister, Stella-Rondo, who makes her alienated from the family. She is jealous with Stella-Rondo as she becomes the dearest child. Moreover, the narrator is a coward as she doesn’t want to face the truth that she snatched Stella-Rondo’s
husband. In each story, there are dominant characteristic of the protagonist. The main protagonist, in “A Rose for Emily”, is Emily Grierson and in “Why I live at the PO”, is the sister. In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily Grierson is a recluse and calm person whom don’t want to reveal her identity. In addition, we can also consider her as a mysterious and private person. Emily was born as a bourgeois child because her family seems powerfully as she could disobey laws in the city. For instance, she refuses to put a number on her house when the federal mail service was established. Emily has some disorder that she wants to kill herself by drinking poison at the end of the story. Furthermore, she has a necrophilia disorder, someone who is attracted with dead bodies. Due to this, it makes the story clearer about why she killed her lover, Homer Barron, and herself. In “Why I live in the PO”, the sister is talkative and stubborn person as she don’t want to listen to her parents and always complaining. She has a reason of why she always keeps complaining, which is because of distrust and jealousy between the family members. For instance, sister becomes jealous of why Stella-Rondo becomes the dearest child while she is the one who work hard to get money for the family. Sister is the one who is being alienated from the family because Stella-Rondo incites her parents to hate her. This creates conflict in the family. We can consider sister as an annoying person too, as at the end of the story, she snatched Stella-Rondo’s husband. Author has its original works of story that is different from other stories. The setting in “A Rose for Emily” and “Why I live at the PO” is similar, but its takes place in different years, which create huge differences for the protagonist’s surroundings. Emily Grierson lives in a wealthier neighborhood that the sister does. For the point-of-view, both of the stories have different point-of-view and different narrator. We could consider the narrators have different purposes for telling us the story. Furthermore, Emily Grierson and the Sister have different traits. For example, Emily is a mysterious and calmer person while Sister is a talkative, stubborn and open-minded person. After analyzing the story, we could conclude the comparison and contrast between both stories. To sum up, every author has if own way to express their own story.
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Comparing A Worn Path by Eudora Welty and A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner
In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily”, readers are introduced to Emily Grierson whose character was highly respected in her society but for some mysterious reason fell off the grid. The other people in her community became curious as to what was going on in her life and any effort to find out the truth had proved to be futile. This journal seeks to show the narrator’s view of the Miss Emily’s story, as the narrator would refer to her due to the first person plural point of view the story was written in. Consequently, the sense in telling the story should be noted, as denoted by the title and why he would constantly use “we instead of “I”. Furthermore, the journal shall assess the effects on the overall story and the character of the narrator.
The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper was told what not to do by her husband and his sister. She was forced to write in secret, because her husband thought it would hinder her provement when she was sick. The main character Emily in A Rose for Emily is always the main topic in conversations between the women in the story. The women believe it to be odd that she isn’t married for her age, when she does find someone to be with, the women judge her because of rumors that her partner is a homosexual.
Both of the short stories are told from a 3rd person perspective—an outsider or townsperson looking into the lives of the protagonists. Rather than allowing the reader to experience the character’s thoughts and feelings, the authors let the stories unfold solely based on their plot development. This allows the reader to be a “fly on the wall,” and join the community in their gossip. Despite what an outsider may see externally, often times if one looks more closely, they will discover the truth. In A Rose for Emily, the townspeople thought that Miss Emily was hiding from society, but after looking more closely, they discover she was hiding the secret death of
In William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily”, the butler is directly related to the traditional values in the older generation. Because of his status and race the butler is not allowed to openly express his ideals like Emily is allowed to. The butler’s role is to display the traditions of the older southern generation. The butler serves his role thorough this story by being excessively loyal and protective of Emily, by fulfilling his duty as a servant, and by being racial discriminated against from people in the town.
When we think about Mississippi and all of its glory one cannot help but to feel oblige to rejoice at how far Mississippi has come over time. Since joining the Union in 1817, Mississippi has experienced its fair share adversity. Mississippi is a unique state because of many different reasons. Three things that has significantly help shaped modern Mississippi is the art, music, and literature. One could dwell on the pain of the past or go through countless stories about the wars. However, when I think of modern Mississippi I envision Eudora Welty writing her stories, BB King strumming Louise, and Leontyne Price melodic melodies filling the air. It is the culture, traditions, and way of life that has truly shaped modern Mississippi.
Eudora Welty and Sherman Alexie were born half a century apart, raised in completely different cultures, and had different financial lives. Eudora Welty was born in Mississippi and grew up in a middle-class house while Sherman Alexie was born on a tribal reservation in the state of Washington and grew up “middle-class by reservation standards (Alexie 496)” but was actually poor. Although they almost lived completely different lives, they shared many similarities.
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” are two short stories that incorporate multiple similarities and differences. Both stories’ main characters are females who are isolated from the world by male figures and are eventually driven to insanity. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the unidentified narrator moves to a secluded area with her husband and sister-in-law in hopes to overcome her illness. In “A Rose for Emily,” Emily’s father keeps Emily sheltered from the world and when he dies, she is left with nothing. Both stories have many similarities and differences pertaining to the setting, characterization, symbolism, and their isolation from the world by dominant male figures, which leads them to insanity.
In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner tells the story in A third-person pov from the perspective of A narrator who is a long-time citizen of the town. The town, described as a wealthy area inhabited by chivalrous/Aristocratic men and ...
In “ A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner tells the complex tale of a woman who is battered by time and unable to move through life after the loss of each significant male figure in her life. Unlike Disney Stories, there is no prince charming to rescue fallen princess, and her assumed misery becomes the subject of everyone in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi. As the townspeople gossip about her and develop various scenarios to account for her behaviors and the unknown details of her life, Emily Grierson serves as a scapegoat for the lower classes to validate their lives. In telling this story, Faulkner decides to take an unusual approach; he utilizes a narrator to convey the details of a first-person tale, by examining chronology, the role of the narrator and the interpretations of “A Rose for Emily”, it can be seen that this story is impossible to tell without a narrator.
In “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, Emily Geierson is a woman that faces many difficulties throughout her lifetime. Emily Geierson was once a cheerful and bright lady who turned mysterious and dark through a serious of tragic events. The lost of the two men, whom she loved, left Emily devastated and in denial. Faulkner used these difficulties to define Emily’s fascinating character that is revealed throughout the short story. William Faulkner uses characterization in “A Rose for Emily”, to illustrate Miss Emily as a stubborn, overly attached, and introverted woman.
Eudora Welty was born in 1909, in Jackson, Mississippi, grew up in a prosperous home with her two younger brothers. Her parent was an Ohio-born insurance man and a strong-minded West Virginian schoolteacher, who settled in Jackson in 1904 after their marriage. Eudora’s school life began attending a white-only school. As born and brought up under strict supervision and influence, at the age of sixteen she somehow convinced her parents to attend college far enough from home, to Columbus, Mississippi and then to Madison, Wisconsin. After graduation in 1930, she moved to New York to attend Columbia Business School. While living in New York, Harlem Jazz theatre occupied her more than her class did. She returned to Jackson in 1931 following her father’s untimely death, where she worked for a local radio station and also wrote articles for a newspaper. Later she worked as a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration in 1935. As a part of her job she traveled by car or by bus through the depth of Mississippi, and saw poverty of black and white people, which she had never imagined before. This time photography became her passion. She was somehow influenced by black and Southern culture as seen in her novel or short story called “Some Notes on River Country” or “A Worn Path”.
In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, the narrative voice is a detached witness to the events in Miss Emily’s life. This is portrayed through its limited omniscience, its shifting viewpoint and its unreliability.
In "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner's use of setting and characterization foreshadows and builds up to the climax of the story. His use of metaphors prepares the reader for the bittersweet ending. A theme of respectability and the loss of, is threaded throughout the story. Appropriately, the story begins with death, flashes back to the past and hints towards the demise of a woman and the traditions of the past she personifies. Faulkner has carefully crafted a multi-layered masterpiece, and he uses setting, characterization, and theme to move it along.