William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

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“A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner tells the story of an old and lonely lady stuck in her own time frame. Her house has become a place of refuge at one time it was a beautiful place with scrolled balconies, but now it has become the place with memories with dust to remind us that nothing lasts forever. The people she once knew had become mere busy bodies and become people of the past. She had soon begun dating a young bachelor by the name Homer Barron. They began taking buggy rides together and the people of the time began to talk more about Miss Emily and her relationship. Eventually no more is seen of Homer, and Miss Emily dies at the age of seventy- four, after Miss Emily death the town’s people entered the house that had been sealed for forty years. A Rose for Miss Emily tells the story of Traditional versus Non Traditional news. …show more content…

The writer begins by describing Miss Emily’s house which was once beautiful and now old. The house stands for traditions. As the story began to speak about Miss Emily’s past. So much so that when she would walk into a room people were expected to reverence her. Miss Emily is the old lady that everyone pitied, but when asked to give a tax payment she doesn’t only refuse, but stands boldly to say I owe no taxes (Faulkner 147). There was a situation where Miss Emily had purchased some rat poison and it was state law that she must give a reason for buying it. The most dramatic act is Miss Emily, going to kill her lover, because this was the only way she knew how to keep him with her was to kill

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