The Demise Of Homer Barron

The Demise Of Homer Barron
Gabriel, Bridges English, 1020 Professor Emery, Taylor 3 September 2014 The Demise of Homer
Barron In William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily," Ms. Emily Grierson, the title character
in the story, is a very peculiar character. Introverted from society, trapped in a world of
misconceptions, Emily never receives any psychiatric treatment, but she definitely exhibits
symptoms of a mental illness. By examining Emily's behavior and her social relationships, it is
possible to conclude that Emily was mentally unstable and possessed a personal motivation to kill
Homer Baron. Although her community of Jefferson Mississippi never thought Emily was "crazy,"
she was indeed a very ill person. After Emily Grierson dies at the age of seventy–four, the town
people of Jefferson Mississippi turn out in countless numbers for the funeral. The men show up to
pay tribute to a "fallen monument," the narrator states, and "the women mostly out of curiosity to
see the inside of her house" (32). The only individual who had seen the interior over the time period
before her death was Homer Barron and her servant Tobe. Tobe's character was an old black man
who did the cooking, gardening, and marketing. Tobe was originally the servant of Emily's father
Mr. Grierson, and stayed with Emily after his death, seemingly out of devotion and commitment.
Emily was born during the Civil War as an only child. Her father, Mr. Grierson raised her with Old
Southern values. He prevented young
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I Don 't Know It Makes Us Poor
There once was a girl named Emily, who was 6 years old. She lived on a small farm, in a small
town, with not many people. She had 9 older siblings and 2 younger siblings. Emily and her family
were poor but, she didn't know that because, she always got what she needed. Her mom taught her
how to sew her clothes. Her dad taught her how to run the farm. Emily went to school, but only had
one friend named Anna. She was always bullied. One day she was washing dishes and turned to her
mom and asked, "Mom are we poor?" Her mom looked at her and said "No we are not poor. We just
don't have things other families have." "I don't understand. I feel like it makes us poor." said Emily.
"Well someday you will learn that not having things other families have doesn't make us poor. Now
get over here and finish these dishes. Then, go finish your homework," said Emily's mom. "Okay
mom," said Emily still confused. The very next day, Emily went to school. There were always two
bullies that picked on her. "Your family is so poor even your mom can't buy you clothes." said one
of the bullies. "My mama may be poor, but she can make better clothes than your mama ever could,"
said Emily. She was proud of herself for standing up for herself. The bullies finally left her alone for
now at least. When Emily got home, she saw her mom making something new. She knew it wasn't
for her because, she always got hand–me–downs. "Mom we are poor. You said we weren't." Said

William Faulkner's 'A Rose For Emily'
In Williams Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" the story begins by the town going to Emily Grierson's
funeral in amongst her home. When Mr. Grierson died the family left a large sum for the town to
use, in result the town suspended taxing the family. When new mayors of the town came into action
they tried to make the family pay taxes, however when Emily reasserted the officials that she did not
have to pay taxes. The people to officialized the family's agreement to the town as to not paying
taxes had all passed away ten years before. The man everyone thought Emily was to marry left her
suddenly, the house began to smell a putrid odor, then the judge of the town ordered for the property
to have lime sprinkled around it. Emily's father died, although for three days she refused to tell
people he had died, she then turned his body into the mortician, to be buried. Emily then has been
seen every Sunday taken on buggy rides with a man beneath her ranking as a result the town feels
pitiful for her to forget her family pride. Emily orders arsenic labeled "For Rats". The townspeople
believed she was going to use it to poison herself. A minister was ordered to her house, when he left
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Her idiosyncratic behavior is covered by the town as they care for her as a consequence look out for
her as their own. The town distrusts when Emily finds a man to share her love with, the town pitty's
her because he's not as high status as her family once was. The town is determined to keep the high
standing identity. The people of the town adapt to the changes trying to hide the fact Emily has a
mental illness nevertheless is highly dysfunctional. When they find Homer's body as well as her hair
on the pillow next to him, she had spent most of her life lying next to his dead decaying

Analysis Of The Play Our Town
Our Town, a theatrical production directed by Roseann Sheridan, recreates the day–to–day activities
of ordinary citizens living in a small New Hampshire town. The stage manager (played by Denzel
Taylor) introduces the audience to the Webb and Gibbs households, who the entire play revolves
around. The Webb and the Gibbs represent the typical family in present day society who live about
their lives and fail to acknowledge and appreciate the small joys of life. The play Our Town uses a
contrast in scenic design between Acts 1–2 and 3, specifically with respect to the absence or
presence of scenery and props, to illustrate how we take our lives for granted; in fact, we never truly
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The absence of scenery and props made me feel as if the characters never fully appreciated all the
wonderful luxuries their town had to offer. I agree with Emily when she asserts that human beings
are "just blind people" because we fail to recognize and appreciate whatever we are fortunate
enough to have. In my opinion, the producers of Our Town did an amazing job conveying this
message with their minimal use of scenery and props in Acts 1–2.
When Emily is up in heaven, she wishes for her spirit to return to Earth so that she can relive past
experiences she considered to be "happy" moments; however, Emily ends up questioning whether or
not "human beings ever realize life while they live it." In fact, the only time the play makes use of
extensive scenery or props is during Act 3, or when Emily is reliving her twelfth birthday and
reflecting back on her life. While there is minimal use of scenery and props in Acts 1 and 2, there is
a beautifully decorated kitchen set in the final scene of Act 3 when Emily returns to her birthday.
The change in set design helped me understand the sharp contrast in how Emily viewed the world as
a child versus now. Not only is there a physical set present in the final scene, but it is also decorated
with a variety of props, ranging from kitchen appliances to a colorful birthday present for Emily.
Emily walks around the kitchen, mesmerized, and

Theme Of Time In A Rose For Emily
In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner uses the aspect of time to accentuate details of the setting and vice
versa. By disregarding the chronological order of development of Miss Emily's life, at first Faulkner
gives the reader a finished complexity, and then allows the reader to examine this puzzle step by
step, piece by piece. By doing this, he enhances the plot and portrays two different angles of time
held by the characters. The first perspective, the world as the present, shows time as a progression
and the past is a shrinking road. The second perspective, the world of tradition and the past, views
the past as "a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the
narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years."(5) The first perspective is based on Homer
and the modern generation. The second is based on confederate soldiers and the older members of
the Board of Aldermen. Emily holds the second view too, however for her there is no bottleneck
separating her from the meadow of the past.
Faulkner starts off the story with Miss Emily's funeral, where the men see her as a "fallen
monument"(1) and the women are curious about the inside of her house. He draws a picture of a
woman who is fragile because she has "fallen," but still symbolic and important like a "monument."
The particulars of Miss Emily's house are very similar to her and symbolize what she stands for. It is
set on "what had once been the most select street."(1) The narrator, which is the

I Stand Here Ironing By Tillie Olsen
For years women have struggled with balancing the demands of home, children, and work. This is
especially true for young, single mothers who do not have the support of family. "I Stand Here
Ironing" written by Tillie Olsen is a short story that reflects on the struggles of a single mother who
looks back on the past and tries to assess the effect her decisions and circumstances had on her
young daughter, Emily. It is part of the "awarding–winning collection, Tell Me a Riddle, which was
first published in 1961 when Olsen was in her late forties". The story "is considered the most
autobiographical" of Olsen's literary works (Piedmont–Marton). The title of the story is taken from
the story's opening line, "I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and
forth with the iron" (Bauer; Olsen 584). "The story is one of the best examples in literature– and
certainly one of the first– to offer readers a glimpse into the lives of the working–class women and
families from a woman's perspective" (Piedmont–Marton). This story "illustrates Olsen's particular
concern with the difficulties faced by women" (Wolfe). As the story unfolds, Olsen's use distinct
character traits, imagery, symbolism, tone, and style create a dramatic sense of the mother's internal
debate of her own feelings. The tone of this story is one of fear, regret, and guilt. The story first
leads the reader on to the impression that it may be a recount of the life of a daughter who was lost
due

Who Is Homer In A Rose For Emily
In the story "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, Emily is described as a mysterious woman
whom was an outsider to the whole town. Throughout her whole life her father turned away any
man who potentially would marry Emily which left her alone after his death. Until Homer Barron
came along–Emily had finally found a man. The town did not know Emily was crazy yet. After she
met Homer, the town thought nothing of the events after her father's death. Emily was happy and not
as crazy anymore, or so the town thought–that was until Emily died and they found Homer's dead
body in her bed. In the story Falkner states, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she
had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and

Personal Narrative : My Best Friend
As a child, I considered myself to be painfully shy. As I have grown older, I've determined for
myself that I am simply introverted. Combine this with my Asperger's and I was a kid with few
close friends. Luckily, I was never bullied to my knowledge, but it seemed like I invested everything
in a single person or two. This was a bit problematic. Around the beginning of middle school, I
began homeschooling and my best friend at the time moved away to Germany. We tried our best to
keep in contact, but when you are a whole world away, it is a hard task to keep up with. My other
(and current) best friend was still in my life though and she has been instrumental to helping me
grow as a person and actually reaching the point where I became able to make a larger network of
friends. Through my best friend, Skye, I became better friends with a couple of guys, James and
Josh, through hanging out with them my eight grade year; and then connecting with James's sister
and another person, Allison (whom Skye and I actually met on a drawing app for the Nintendo DSi
when we were roughly between ten and twelve years old), roughly a year ago. I would consider
Skye to be the glue that held us together at first. Josh and James hated each other at first (actually,
James hated Josh; though hate might be a strong word for what). Emily, James's sister, was a grade
or two above all of us so we didn't really talk to her until she started tutoring Skye. Then, Josh
moved to Georgia and Allison had always

Becoming A Deeper Enrollment Service Partnership
Emily joined us at the end of June 2016 as our Advisement & Registration and New Student
Initiative Coordinator. Emily had the opportunity to shadow the outgoing A&R coordinator to meet
campus partners and student advisors, observe how the program worked, learn our orientation
process and system and get some hands–on, basic–level experience with our program. During the
last 8 months, Emily has spent time meeting, building and collaborating with our campus partners
and forging a personal connection with them. Emily is observing UMD campus–culture and learning
about the history of SIT programs, and our campus partnerships, to help shape future direction of
SIT programming.
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Emily also arranged to have specific offices represented at a resource fair in the lobby of MPAC for
students to ask additional questions or get information before the A&R program began. Moving the
spring A&R to MPAC allowed the SIT presentation to be added back in, in the past, because of
space this presentation was removed. Putting this presentation back into the program was a definite
win.
Emily is already instituting the following changes to fall 2017 A&R. First, Emily eliminated the
concept of an invitation to A&R and instead designed an A&R guide that provides necessary
account initiation and registration steps but it also provides additional information for incoming
students to review. Even though our proposal for an overnight orientation program was put on hold,
Emily began developing ways to incorporate orientation back into our Advisement & Registration
program. First item tackled, changing the name of our program. Beginning Fall 2018, our program
will be named Orientation, Advisement & Registration. Choosing the name was the easy part,
making the actual changes to the program became trickier. However, Emily continues to work her
relationships and has been able to hang on to the commitment for a 2.5–hour orientation program.
This orientation component will intentionally create ways for students to meet and make social
connections, to learn areas at UMD that can ease the transition for students, to prepare them for their
advising sessions by providing time to

Character Analysis: A Rose For Emily
The story is about a spinster: Miss Emily, who is described as an undefeated maiden, she was
motherless and was raised by a restricted father who did not allow her to communicate with other
men. When her father died, she tried to keep his corpse at home, which later in the story, produced
some bad smell, therefore leading the town government to investigate her house. Later in the story,
she met and dated a worker from the North, who afterward disappeared. During their acquaintance,
the town started talking about Homers and Emily's relationship, because Homer was from North and
was not suitable for a lady from South. After her death, the town discovered that all that time she
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It was still a very important matter for the townsfolk, that Emily's father had cruelly interfered in
Emily's happiness, and even the town' people additionally isolated her out of concern and disgust.
Everybody pitied Emily, even though, that was lots completely different than the way they could
charm her. Maybe the last scene was a verification of her last saying about life.
And while reading "A Rose for Emily" we are confronted by as a morbid crime story, or a tragic
story of a couple of bitter spinster, on second thought it can be seen as a story of girl who had the
domination over the folks in her society and feeling entitled to her ascendance, she doesn't hesitate
to impose her abnormal ways on them. Emily defied and revolted against the Southern patriarchy
with its sexism and racial differentiation.
‟Emily is a victim because she belongs to another time and a different world that which emerges in
her lifetime, and she flatly refuses to give up her internalized ideals and ideas because she has been
given nothing in exchange for them. The reader can not and will not condone Emily's behavior, but
at the same time as she is depicted as a product of a certain era and place , of ideas and attitudes and
behavior of a bygone age which should have been buried with the veterans in the cemetery of
Jefferson but which still is a part of present, although a dead part of a changing world''. (Skei, p.

Miss Emily Questions
In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the elderly woman is mysterious, suspicious, and a
murderer. Throughout the story the narrator talks a little about Emily's back story but the narrator
does go as far as telling about her child hood growing up but instead talks about her life from the
time she is a young adult until she is an elder. We start to see that there are some unanswered
questions throughout the entire story, and even with the surprise ending it still leaves us with a lot of
questions that need to be answered. Since the narrator didn't give that much of a backstory regarding
Miss Emily, we must come up with theories and conclusions to answer our own questions. First, we
see that Miss Emily is mysterious even from the very beginning because the narrator talks about
how her house used to be, "white, decorated with cupolas, and spires, and scrolled balconies". By
the way the narrator describes her house it seems that it used to be very beautiful and full of life, but
now the, "garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated". The narrator mentions in the
story is that Miss Emily had a manservant; we start to ask ourselves the question that if she has a
servant to wait on her hand and foot than how could she let her house get in such a bad shape like
that when she could have asked her servant to keep the house tidy since she is too old to do it
herself. Another thing that is mysterious is that the narrator mentions that she hardly ever leaves her
house

A Short Story : A Story Of A Story
AMULET Once upon a time there lived a family who was returning from a ceremony on a curvy
mountain route. In the car, the family was chatting very loudly. "Emily get up. We are going t o
reach our house"said Karen. Suddenly, the father was distracted and didn't notice a sharp turn in the
road. The car flipped and drove off the mountain, as the family screamed.
"Emily get out" said Emily's father David. "Now you go out Karen" said David. "David Come" said
Emily's mother Karen . "i can't come. My leg is stuck in the dashboard. I can't move". "David give
me your hand". David gave his hand to Karen but he is not moving. The car was dripping into the
valley. "Karen, take care of Emily and Navin. Leave my hand, let go" said David. "David noah" said
Karen. David pushed Karen and the car tripped in the valley and blasted.
After three years, the family moved to a house which was in the middle of the forest. When they
opened the house. The house belongs to Emily's grandfather. When they opened the door the house
was very dusty. They started cleaning the house. While they were cleaning the house, Emily went to
her grandfather's study room. There she saw a book which was written '360 words' on it. Beneath
that it was written 'Silas secrets'. Emily just touched the word 'Silas', a very big light came and an
amulet appeared. Emily wore the Amulet and did not say to her mother because if she knows she
will say to keep it back. It was night and all were sleeping after hard work. Then

Allegory In A Rose For Emily
Some people love change, but others absolutely dislike it. When something big changes in one's life,
will it change who they are, or will they fight back? This short story shows how when a person
grows up relying only on one person when they leave, it will change everything about that person.
In the southern gothic story "A rose for Emily" by William Faulkner uses characterization, allegory,
and allusion display the idea that the toll that death can take on one's life could be drastic.
Characterization showed the true personality of Miss Emily and how her father's death shaped her.
The many issues in this short story all started at how Miss Emily was raised. She was raised to only
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We can see that this story makes a lot of indirect references in the text. "I want some poison, the best
that you have. I didn't care what kind." (pg. 3) Allusion is shown because it made it seem like she
was going to commit suicide. This is evidence that she most likely killed Homer Barron because he
was poorer while her dad wasn't, so she knew that he would never approve, which could've cause
her to kill him. This created an allusion in her mind that it was acceptable for her to poison someone
because of what her dead father would think.
Characterization, allegory, and allusion all play a large role as to why Miss Emily has attachment
issues and is unable to move on from the past and look forward to the future. Though there was no
visible or literal rose, it did symbolize Miss Emily and how she started out mentally healthy and
then as all the major events took place, it shows how roses fade, along with her mental health. This
story is the perfect example to not be too not let the struggles in life overcome

A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner
" A Rose For Emily" Character Analysis Stubborn and a bit unstable, Emily Grierson is the main
character of William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily ". Emily is a prime example of a flat character
because she seldom changes throughout the whole story. Emily acts as if nothing has changed over
the years. In the town of Jefferson, It's as if time went to a stood still. She shows this flat affect
throughout the story in many instances. For example, like her refusing to pay her taxes, not keeping
up with the maintenance of her father's home after his passing. So much so that the home was
referred to as "an eyesore among eyesores, still standing among the cotton wagons and gasoline
pumps (Faulkner, p. 121). Emily was a very stubborn and hard headed woman throughout the story.
In the beginning of the story, Emily was a young lady who lived at home with her father. He had no
intentions of allowing any man to marry his daughter so any man who ever came to the house to call
upon his daughter was ran off before they could even get one foot onto the porch. Emily's father
later passes away but because she has no one else, she held onto her father's body for fear of being
alone once she let him go. After three days of holding on, she finally allowed her father's body to go
out for burial. After her father's passing, Emily refused to pay any taxes on the home, even when
approached by the new city officials. Many years later, in her home, she told them, "See Colonel
Sartoris, I

Compare And Contrast A Rose For Emily And The Story Of An...
The short stories "A Rose for Emily" and "The Story of an Hour" are about two women with some
similarities and differences. These two women have comparable ideas and they also live in the same
society. In this time period they live in a world that was decrepit, and very controlling, and they had
to show a great deal of respect to the men of the household. In this time period the woman's
expectations were to clean, cook, and take care of the children and whatever else chores they had to
accomplish. Louise character tries to display happiness throughout the story about being free and
triumphant, but Emily is the complete opposite. The author, Kate Chopin focuses more on the
freedom a woman does not have, and author Faulkner's main purpose is to show what a woman
would go through to keep herself happy. First, Emily and Louise share many of the same
characteristics on how much love meant to them. Although, Emily found a deceptive way to keep a
man around and Louise prepared herself for being free. This meant that the idea of having a man
throughout both stories was important to both Emily and Louise. In the meantime, Emily and Louise
share more qualities throughout the story. In the beginning of each short story, it is shown that death
has occurred and how sorrow came over them. For example, Louise is not happy because she was a
housewife who was controlled by her husband,but as soon as she heard the news that her husband
died, it brought extreme grief to her, it was so

Fear From The Town In A Rose For Emily
"Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the
town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris" (Faulkner I). Emily abandoned with no
wealth but a house from her father's will. Her father was the man in her life that took control and
isolated Emily by enabling her to have a husband and a proper life. Emily creates her own illusions,
a reality that permanently detaches herself from the real world. Therefore, as the years passed the
town developed a new society, but Emily has gone old unable to accept the changes in her
surrounding by refusing to have a mailbox build on her property. She lives in the past that enables
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There are a few reasons why Emily gets the negative attention from the town. First, Emily's
snobbish persona intimidates and scare away any town folks because she lacks affection from love
ones and human interaction. The town is afraid of disturbing Emily because from a pungent smell
that lingered her home, "Dammit, sir, Judge Stevens said, will you accuse a lady to her face of
smelling bad?" (Faulkner II). They took action to encircle her home and sprinkle lime to get rid of
the awful smell. This passage foreshadows the future of Emily's lover Homer dead. Second, Emily
ask the druggist to hand over the a powerful poison and she gets her way by demanding and refusing
to explain what she's going to use it for. When an individual is feared they tend to get what they
want. Therefore, the town folks exclaimed, "We all said, "She will kill herself"; and we said it would
be the best thing" (Faulkner IV). Emily purchased poison to use on her Homer, because rumors from
the town he did not have interest on marry, so Emily did refused Homer on leaving her. Controlling
like her father she forced him to stay by poisoning him and his body detailed as, "The body had
apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that
conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him" (Faulkner V). The passage shows symptoms
of being emotionally unstable after her father's death. Emily positioning a corpse into a cradling
position making her a

A Rose For Emily Grierson Point Of View
"A Rose for Emily" follows a first–person account of part of Miss Emily Grierson's life leading up
to her death. The narrator talks as if they were speaking for the entire population of Jefferson, but it
is more likely that they are just stating their own opinion on Miss Emily under the guise of the
townsfolk. The point of view in this novel shows an incomplete, or inaccurate opinion on Miss
Emily Grierson because of the narrators own bias. In section 1 the narrator describes Miss Emily as
being viewed as "a fallen monument" (79) when she died, but when she was alive she was "a
tradition, a duty and a care" (79). This is the first example the reader gets of the narrators conflicting
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Four men had snuck onto her property instead of consulting her about it to sprinkle lime around and
in her buildings. When the smell eventually disappears the narrator states that the town began to feel
sorry for her because of the madness that ran in her family. The narrator almost immediately
contradicts himself by stating that it was believed the Griersons "held themselves a little too high for
what they really were" (81), and that the death of Miss Emily's father was a good thing because now
she would be "humanized" (81) and "would know the thrill and the old despair of a penny more or
less" (81). When Miss Emily's father died, she kept his body within the house for as long as possible
and claimed that her father was not dead. Soon after the death, "they" were about to resort to law,
she broke down and let them bury her father. The narrator becomes sympathetic after, stating that
"we" were sympathetic towards Miss Emily's grieving process, even saying "We did not say she was
crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven
away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her,
which people will" (81). This shows another inaccurate view of the towns opinion of Miss Emily at
this point in time, because not everyone in Jefferson would share the same opinion nor would
everyone believe that she wasn't crazy. The narrator groups everyone in Jefferson together, making
the town as a whole a character by generalizing what would have been their opinions or

How Does The Napoleonic Code Affect The Power Of Women In...
Promoting the authority of men over women in the 19th and 20th century, the Napoleonic code
denied and relinquished women's rights, such as leaving the house , working, and even controlling
their own bodies. Due to the limitations that these rules put on women, it made it very difficult to
build their own self–identity and have happy and fulfilled lives. The Napoleonic code influenced not
only Europe, but also other countries such as the United States, as men and women alike were
convinced that women did not deserve the same rights as men. While both women in Kate Chopin's
"The Story of an Hour" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" respond to their situations after
obtaining freedom in different ways, they illustrate the multiple facets of women's oppressed social
conditions during that era which caused many women various manifestations of depression, other
physical and mental ailments, and for many, lead to loneliness and unfulfilled lives.
Despite Mallard and Grierson's differences in their attitudes and experiences, both are social
outcasts since they do not agree with "men and women who believe they have a right to impose a
private will upon a fellow–creature" (Chopin 53). Only because of the society's beliefs and
restrictions, Louise expresses her concealed emotions of optimism and openness after the realization
of freedom. Society's ridiculous rules and coercive action, such as the sheriff barging into Emily's
house to compel her to pay her taxes, both women

A Short Story : A Story?
Hetty brought a tortoise the day after her daughter died. Her only daughter, as it turned out. Her only
daughter and her only tortoise, as it had also turned out. That was almost twenty years ago. The
tortoise, Bertram, was, all these years later, still going strong. Still ambling around the house like an
old man with dementia, bumping into furniture, getting lodged beneath furniture and nibbling said
furniture in case it turned out to be as edible (or more edible) than it appeared. Sometimes, often in
fact, he would creep up behind Hetty while she was doing the washing up or making breakfast,
lunch or dinner and she was now in the habit, had been for approximately nineteen and a half years,
of checking where she was putting her feet before moving away from the sink, the cooker or the
kitchen surface, or anywhere else she had been standing still for longer than a couple of minutes, so
as to prevent herself from feeling Bertram's hard carapace beneath her foot, or worse, hearing the
soft crunch of that carapace being crushed beneath her shoe.
She hadn't wanted a tortoise, and had only brought one because she had promised her daughter,
Emily, before she died, that she would buy her one as a birthday present, and for sentimental reasons
that were most unlike her, Hetty, once she could stand upright again without tears streaming down
her cheeks like Niagara in the rainy season, went out, found the nearest pet shop and purchased for
herself a six–inch long spur–thighed tortoise.

My Name Is Jack And I Am Known As A Freak
My name is Jack and I am known as a freak. I don't know how or when I have come to accept this
but nevertheless it is true. I live in a small shack deep within the forest with my adopted father and 2
older siblings. As I would believe not only I but the rest of my family would be labeled as freaks as
well but unlike me they never cared about their labels so why did I. As my thought process began to
move faster I heard a knock on my door. "Jack, are you alright? We haven't seen you in a while." I
looked at my bedroom do for while then responded. "I'm fine father, just thinking about some
things. Alright," I heard him say," come out when you're ready. I'll be out doing my runs for today." I
then heard him walk off and the front door closing. I stared at the ceiling for a second then walked in
front of bedroom mirror. When I looked through I saw a monster. The monster was wearing black
gloves and hoodie covering his head and brown hair. Along with this it was wearing a light blue
mask with dried black ooze going down the eyelids. I looked at the monster then cringed in anger
and fear and punched the mirror shattering it into pieces. As the mirror pieces hit the ground I stared
at my fist and frowned under my mask. As I walked out of my room I saw my older brother Jeff
laughing towards my older sister Jane while playing with his knife. He noticed me and grinned. Jeff
was like me, a freak of nature. He always wore a white sweatshirt covered in the

Analysis Of William Faulkner 's ' A Rose For Emily '
Nora Del Bosque Comp II O'Connell Paper #2
"Deceiving Looks" In "A Rose for Emily", William Faulkner tells the story of an sad and lonely
lady, stuck in her time. Because her father died, she never fully recovered from it and was not able
to find herself. Emily's house was in the past was considered elegant and was built on the best street
in town in the 1870's. Now the house is old and an unattractive building to the neighborhood. People
in her town begin to bad mouth her because of her lost soul. Homer Barron, an employee of a
construction company, begins to begins to date Emily. The townspeople do not seem ecstatic about
this, because they think she is doing it out of being lonely and depressed since her father died. Later
on, she ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Emily had depression and was dealing with it in her own way by closing herself off. Looks could be
very deceiving and in this case, Emily surprised the town when she died. The townspeople realized
that there was more to her than they thought and were quick to judge. The protagonist in this story is
Emily Grierson. Her family is considered to be superior than others in the town and are well
respected. Her father left the house for Emily and did not need to pay for taxes. Her father was
controlling and believed that no man was suitable for her, so did not let her build any relationships
with anyone. Emily 's father passing was a devastating loss and caused Emily to become depressed.
"After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw
her at all" (story). Due to her father always trying to control her, she was 40 with no kids and single.
Her life had been taken over by time, causing her tension in life. When her father passed, she was
now looking for partner, but it was past her time. She did not like the help of outsiders, causing her
to act in an uncanny manner. She did not accept the fact that her father had died for three days and
shut herself out to others. Due to her living in existence, society found her interesting, but
inappropriate. Emily is in conflict with society. They closely observe her, gossip and judge. The
townspeople are aware of her room upstairs, but no one does anything. They believed that her

Summary Of Emily Grierson And Do�a Ernestina
There are two different stories and two different characters facing the loss of a loved one. Emily
Grierson and Doña Ernestina go through a difficult time and recover from their grief just before both
their lives' end. The two stories, "A Rose for Emily" and "Nada", talk about their protagonist going
through the loss of a loved one. Emily Grierson and Doña Ernestina are more similar than different
because they lose someone whom they love and are affected greatly, which leads them to depression
and loneliness, and they mourn in a different way than usual.
Emily Grierson loses two loved ones, her father and the man she loved, Homer Barron. Doña
Ernestina loses her husband and her son. The two characters live a lonely and isolated life. In "A
Rose for Emily", Emily's father separates her from society and makes sure she has no lovers. When
he dies, she has to accept the reality that she has no one and has to find her role in society instead of
being an outcast. The story does not mention any siblings or her mother, giving off the appearance
that she is isolated and disconnected. Emily lives in a big house alone. Emily refuses to
acknowledge that her father dies, so the town has to pester Emily for her father's burial. She finally
breaks down and buries her father. Emily stays in the house for several months, aging as time comes
along. She meets Homer Barron and falls in love with him but finds out he has no interest in her.
The townspeople pity her, saying ""Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her""(Faulkner 180)
because they know she seeks a lover. When she meets Homer Barron, she kills him. After Emily's
death the townspeople think that she has been sleeping next to Homer's dead body. Emily does this
because she does not want to sleep alone because it means she is alone. In Nada, Doña Ernestina is
also left in isolation with no remaining family; not only having to deal with her husband's death, but
later she has to deal with her son's death leading her to more depression. Now, she feels she has
"nada", meaning nothing. She dresses in full mourning attire but does not break down or cry. She
thinks she has no one; however, she does have the ladies in her apartment who want to comfort her.
The people in her

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launch six months prior. Burton needs to assess if the plans and costs to adapt the CMF marketing
programs in each country would generate sufficient incremental sales and profits to justify the added
complexity.
US Launch
The US toothpaste market – $2,438 million – with a growth rate of 8% since 2000, Table B in the
case shows that CP and P&G are battling head to head competition for the 2004 value share of
toothpaste market with 34.8% and 31.6% respectively. Colagate–Palmolive's Global Market Share
remained almost constant for 5 years, as shown in Table A, upsetting Crest's former dominance.
Exhibit 2A US Market Toothpaste Benefit Importance (1997), shows that therapeutic benefits;
'Protection against cavities/contains fluoride', 'Reduces plaque build–up', 'controls tartar' were listed
at 1st, 2nd, and 4th places respectively, while the cosmetic benefits such as 'Breath Freshening' and
'Whitens Teeth' are at the 3rd and 5th places in must haves from the total respondents (1,216).
This shows that the US market is more concerned about the therapeutic benefits from their
toothpastes in 1997, yet Exhibit 2B, shows that consumers from 2000–2004 the importance shifted
from the therapeutic benefit : 'anti–cavity/tartar' at –22.7% while there is a growth in cosmetic
benefits : 'whitening' at +16.4% and 'freshening/cleaning' at +2.9%. For 2004, therapeutic benefits
total at 53.4% while cosmetic benefits add up to 46.6%. CMF's success in the US

The Rhetorical Situation Summary
In his article, "The Rhetorical Situation," Lloyd Bitzer defines and elaborates on rhetorical situation.
He writes, "Rhetorical situation may be defined as a complex of persons, events, objects, and
relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially remove if
discourse, introduced into the situation, can so constrain human decision or action as to bring about
the significant modification of the exigence" (6). To put it simply, a rhetorical situation is some
response to a certain situation (Bitzer 3). Bitzer also explains that there are three parts to any
rhetorical situation: the exigence, the audience, and the constraints. These three components exist
before any discourse is created or presented (6.)
On July 27th, 2016, Avalon lifeguard Emily Blake sent a message to the other members of the
Avalon staff, informing them that she could not work her assigned shift due to other commitments
that she needed to attend to. Following Bitzer's definition, Emily's message in response to this
complication is a response to a rhetorical situation. When composing her response, Emily had the
choice of what method of communication she would use and with who she would communicate.
Because of the decisions she made regarding these two matters, Emily's response to the rhetorical
situation was an ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
A lifeguard needs someone to take over her shift, therefore the only people who meet the needs to be
able to do so are other current Avalon lifeguards. To put it as Bitzer writes it, the other guards are the
only ones "capable of being influenced by discourse and of being mediators of change" (7). Had
Emily mentioned her scheduling conflict to a friend or family member, though they may have
sympathized with her, there was nothing that they could do to

Sherwood Anderson's Society As An Outsiders
In Sherwood Anderson's "Hands," and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," both authors
introduced main characters who are alienated in their respective societies. In Anderson's work, Wing
Biddlebaum is an outsider because he wants to escape from his society since he has been accused of
being a child molester. Similarly, in Faulkner's work, Emily hides from society since the prying eyes
of the people who see her gaze and oppression. In this way, both characters are outsiders in their
communities by the people's eyes on them. There are a variety of people in our society and divide
into two main groups. There are people who associate easily with other people are more likely to
interact with people. However, there are people who live in a quiet do not mix with other people. We
call those people an outsider. To define an outsider as a single sentence from dictionary.com, "A
person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc" (1). There are also various definitions of
the outsider. Among them, Wing Biddlebaum who is the main character in Anderson's work is not an
outsider from the beginning. He chooses to become an outsider because people are
misunderstanding his action with hands. Emily who is the main character in Faulkner's work is an
outsider from the start. Emily, who grew up in a wealthy family, is afraid of people' eyes to her. In
Sherwood Anderson's "Hands," it is Wing Biddlebaum's story who becomes an outsider himself by
his hands. He was a teacher in

Uspiritus Orphanage Short Story
In the city of Lexington, Kentucky, there lives a small young family. The husband's name is Frank
Dean. The wife was named Suzanne Dean. They only had one child which was named Posey. Posey
was a girl with brown hair and large grey eyes. The little girl was four years old and was an only
child. The parent were trying their best to cheer up the girl by showering her with gifts but the girl
remained depressed. Suzann and Frank were deeply wounded by the fact that they can not cheer up
the little girl. So as the weeks pasted, they went to different orphanages, to see if they would make a
connection with one of the children, but with no luck. As their search continued they found one
Orphanage called "Uspiritus Orphanage". Against their better judgement, they went over to the
orphanage. As they entered the Orphanage, they were greeted by one of the counselors at the
Orphanage. The counselor's name was Julian Hills, she was tall lady with hair as dark as the night
and with dark black eyes. She was scary to look directly at but as she went in to greet Suzann and
Frank, they were taken back by how nice and kind she was. As they entered the Orphanage, they
were greeted by the sight of giggling children and children playing with with blocks.
"Good luck", said Hills as she walked away to help out the children that playing with the blocks.
"Where do you want to start?", said Suzann as she turned and questioned Frank. "I don't know,
maybe we should start by hanging out with the

Psychological Criticism In A Rose For Emily By William...
"A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner, focuses on many different literary criticisms. A
psychological criticism expresses literature through personality, state of mind, feelings, and
emotions. "The psychological approach is a unique form of criticism in that it draws upon
psychological theories in its interpretation of a text" (George). In this story psychological criticism
is shown greatly through Emily, the main character of the book. Do you know why Emily acts and
behaves the way that she does? Emily is in a denial, and the situation is making her delusional.
Emily behaves the way she does for numerous reasons. She is born into an aristocratic family. Emily
is brought up as a Southern belle by her father and is placed on a pedestal by the townspeople. The
Grierson's are known in town for being extremely wealthy and having the nicest house in Jefferson,
Yoknapatawpha County. Due to the fact that her father, Mr. Grierson, keeps her isolated and socially
restricted as a child, she behaves abnormally. Emily feels as if she is pressured to live up to her
father's expectations. Because Emily is kept away from everything, she is not yet exposed to the real
world.
Everybody in town feels sorry for Emily when her father passes away. When Emily decides to
isolate herself, the town automatically assumes that she is up to something without giving her a
chance. Throughout the entire story, the townspeople are whispering and repeatedly saying "Poor
Emily". They label her as "crazy" as soon as they feel she was acting abnormal. Every action that is
taken by Emily creates a reaction from the townspeople. "So, the next day we all said, 'she will kill
herself', and we said it would be the best thing" (Faulkner 85). The town gives off the impression
that they despise Miss Emily, they lead the readers to believe that Emily is doing some type of harm
to the community. Mr. Grierson supports the town financially and physically. When the mayor
exempts her from paying taxes it starts a conflict between Emily and the town of Jefferson. Since
Emily has special privileges, the townspeople are now unsatisfied. Jealousy and hatred plays a major
role in why the town feels and acts the way they do towards Emily.
The whereabouts of

Arsenism In A Rose For Emily
"A Rose for Emily" opens up with a very unusual way, the townspeople are at Miss Emily funeral
then all of a sudden the readers are jump back into Emily's childhood. As a child Emily father cut
her off from the town, isolated her socially. Giving the townspeople something to gossip, and
entertain them self with. The townspeople put Emily a rich, well off young women on a pedestal that
was a huge mystery to them. When Emily father finally passes away she goes through a complete
breakdown, swearing up and down that her father hasn't passed away. She refused to acknowledge
his death for three days, sadly this wouldn't be the only time Emily would experience death in her
life. A few years after her father died, Emily met Homer Barron a man's man, player, and not the
marrying type. But Emily plans on changing that one way or another, she plans on keeping Homer
forever. Even if the townspeople disagree with their relationship because it is improper with the
difference in values, social classes, and their overall background. None of this discourages Emily,
she goes out and buys arsenic ensure that Mr. Barron will be hers and only hers. Years later, after
Emily dies the townspeople discover a very unsettling sight. They found a man's skeleton in her bed.
When digging deeper into "A Rose for Emily" the reader can pick up on some hidden message that
William Faulkner tried to convey in his story was the themes of death and change. Death holds a
significant value thought out the

I Don 't You Just Go Talk About The New Boy
Nova ran from one end of the field to the other with such poise and strength, it almost seemed like
he had been there before. He prepared his next steps, as he leaped from the 20 yard line to the end
zone, all in one breath. Maggie noticed. Maggie always noticed.
She sat beside the field on a picnic table with three close friends, passing around gossip, a cigarette,
and unlimited jokes. The girls caught Maggie in her moment of admiration.
"Why don 't you just go talk to the new boy already?"
Maggie cringed as she pictured the mere thought of possible rejection. There was no way she was
going to take the risk of having her ego being crushed, especially by the new boy, Nova.
"I don 't think he likes me," Maggie whispered as she gawked at him doing his push ups across the
field with his football team. She couldn 't take her eyes off him. Maggie held her gaze for a minute,
then looked away before anyone could notice.
"Come on Maggie, just go say hi and ask him if he wants to have a smoke." said Emily with fumes
flowing out of her nostrils and mouth from the cigarette. She was Maggie's closest friend, and the
only person in their school with all the gossip and the biggest mouth. Nova stared right at Maggie,
and their eyes met. It was purely magical. She could 've sworn it was a dream.
"No! I am not going to talk to him Emily." she said. Maggie stared at his beautiful face, thinking of
all the worst case scenarios a teenage girl with the self esteem of a mouse could think
of if

A Rose For Emily 's House As A Symbol And Or Metaphor Essay
1. Discuss the ways in which Faulkner uses Miss Emily 's house as a symbol and/or metaphor both
her character 's personality and circumstances and for the narrative 's broader themes. What does the
description of Emily 's house–at the beginning of the story, particularly, but also throughout the
narrative–reveal about her character? About the story 's historical setting? About the narrative 's
central concerns? As an image of decrepit grandeur, Miss Emily's house is used to symbolize Miss
Emily's character herself, the historical setting in which the story takes place, and some of the story's
central themes. Described as "a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorates with
cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies" (Faulkner 1), the house is ornate and grand in design,
even being located on what was once an exclusive street in Jefferson. However, over time, it had
become dilapidated and unkempt, with the interior being dark and full of dust, possessing "a close,
dank smell" (Faulkner 1). Similarly, Miss Emily was once a young lady of high standing, opulent in
her own ways, but slowly aged and lost her grandeur, becoming "a small, fat woman" (Faulkner 1)
whose hair was turning grayer as the days went by. Much like her home, Miss Emily was losing her
charm over time, showing that her character was stubbornly grasping on to the idea that she still
retained an image of splendor she no longer possessed, all while isolating herself from the rest of the
town.

The Rose For Emily Comparison
The GreenLeaf, by Flannery O'Connor, and The Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner, are
different in many ways but also similar. The books both have similar literary devices being used, the
era the books were staged in, and how the authors portrayed southern ideals .
Flannery used smiles, such as when O'Connor wrote, "..hand would dangle from her wrist like the
head of a broken lily.", where she compared the hand of Mrs.May and a broken lily's head.
O'Connor also shown symbolism by the bull stabbing Mrs.GreenLeaf in the heart with it's horn,
while earlier in the story she stated " Oh Jesus, stab me in the heart!", this shows Jesus stabbing her
as she said in her demand and symbolizes the crucifixion of Jesus. In the beginning of the story,
O'Connor displays symbolism by comparing the bull to Christ. So once again Flannery O'Connor is
bringing religion into play. O'Connor is well known for utilizing being raised Catholic in the South
in her books. Miss O'Connor puts a piece of herself in all her short stories. Mrs. May shares this
'Christian" aspect that Flannery establishes in all her stories. She conveys this by always stating how
she is a lady of God, even though the statements that she makes do not manifest that. Mrs.May
claims this on multiple occasions as if she is trying to convince herself how christianly she is. The
Rose for Emily also contains multiple literary devices; such as, symbolism, the aged house Emily
lives in shows her isolation, she does not leave that much, because she is hiding a terrible secret in
the upstairs room. Emily only wanted a home, she could call her own and grow old with someone
she loved in, which she thought was Home Barron but tragically he died and stored his body in the
upstairs room, this is the reason why her house was smelling so horrible. The townspeople had to
sprinkle lime on her lawn to terminate the smell. The reader is to think that she killed him because
she loved him and wanted the control that she never had, because her father abused her and he was
all she had before he died, so she wanted to always have Barron.
Both short stories were set to segregation times.Because slavery has ended, both O.T. and E.T. and
Miss Emily have an African American

Society As An Outsiders
In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Sherwood Anderson's "Hands," both authors present
main characters who is isolated in their respective societies. In Faulkner's work, Emily is an outsider
because she chooses to remove herself from mainstream society by not interacting with other
people. Similarly, in Anderson's work, Wing Biddlebaum chooses to remove himself from society
since he has been falsely accused of being a child molester. In this way, both characters are outsiders
in their communities by choosing to remove themselves of their own free will. First, there are
several types of outsider based on different reasons. A person who decides to take himself away
from the society, or one who different from most people can be said to be an outsider. a person not
belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc. An outsider can also mean someone who is not within
boundary or enclosure. "a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc."
(OutsiderDictionary.com. Web. Pg.1). Though the dictionary has already described what an outsider
meant, an outsider can also be when one is trying really hard to succeed at a particular thing but is
having difficulty doing that; like in the case of a student who is having difficulty in passing a course
while most of the students seem to be having no problem with the class. Such student can be said to
be an outsider. While this is the case for students, a homeless is said to be an outsider too. There are
various kinds of

I Stand Here Ironing By Tillie Olsen
Women have for many years struggled with balancing the demands of home, children and work.
This is especially true for young single mothers who do not have the support of family.
"I Stand Here Ironing" written by Tillie Olsen is a short story that reflects on the struggles of a
single mother who looks back on the past and tries to assess the effect her decisions and
circumstances had on her young daughter, Emily. "This story is part of the awarding–winning
collection, Tell Me A Riddle, which was first published in 1961" (Wolfe). "This story is considered
the most autobiographical of Olsen's literary works (Piedmont–Marton). The title of the story is
taken from the stories opening line, "I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented
back and forth with the iron" (Bauer, Olsen). The story is one of the best examples in literature, and
certainly one of the first, to offer readers a glimpse into the lives of the working–class women and
families from a woman's perspective. (Piedmont–Marton) This story "illustrates Olsen's particular
concern with the difficulties faced by women". (Wolfe) As the story unfolds, Olsen uses distinct
character traits, imagery, tone, and style to create a dramatic sense of the mother's internal debate of
her own feelings. The tone of this story is one of fear, regret, and guilt. The story first leaves the
reader with impression that it may be a recount of the life of a daughter who was lost due to neglect.
Soon it is evident

Examples Of Characterization In A Rose For Emily By...
3. As a literary trope, characterization can either be direct or indirect. Direct characterization is when
the author describes the character outright. Indirect characterization is when the character is
described through the actions, thoughts, or speech of the character. Provide an example of both
direct and indirect characterization from separate works of literature that we have read this semester,
showing how the authors describe the character and explaining how the characterization informs
your understanding of the work. You may use any works from the entire semester.
William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" employs indirect characterisation to create a detailed picture
of not only Emily but also of the narrator. While she is described in seemingly direct ways, the
comparison between the vision of her in the past and her present appearance reveals further
characterization than the descriptors themselves. When she is young and pure to the town, she
appears as "a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background" (page 767). She is
almost granted an angelic aura by her virginity, and when the town believes she has lost it her image
it is turned entirely on its head. They see her as tarnishes and no longer consumable or fit to find a
man. She is no longer svelte and desirable, but a "small, fat woman in black" (page 765). The
transformation of Emily from slender to fat, and a white dress to a black dress mirrors that of the
marriage set's tarnishing. Emily's

Theme Of Oppression In A Rose For Emily
William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily is about how oppression affected a woman throughout her
whole life. The gothic story clearly portrays deterioration and the horrors caused by oppression.
Through the piece of literature, the reader gets see all the oppression caused by her father, how it
shapes her, and how her surroundings contribute to it. Although the story is not set in first person,
the reader gets to know so much of Emily, one can imagine how she felt in different instances. The
first part of the story talks about her father, which was the genesis of her oppressive life. He
controlled her whole life. These made her completely dependant of him and since he did not allow
her to date, she has no one else to depend on. Her father "had driven away" many "young men" who
wanted to marry her. This decision made by the father end up in Emily not being married when
thirty. When her father died Emily got "sick". It took her 3 days to accept he was gone and after
burying him, she was not seen for a while. She had other "kin in Alabama" but because of a fight her
father had they did not speak ever which also let Emily alone for a long time. Things seemed that
they were going to get better when a man came to town who Emily started "dating". But this ends up
not being the case. Emily was already broken in a way so people were happy for her when Homer
Barron came to town and they starting to be together. What she did not know is that he liked men.
People thought, maybe

A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner
In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, Faulkner conveys the issue of involving trying to
maintain traditional values and control in a society that is facing a change that is radical and
widespread. In this story, Emily is seen as timeless figure that contradicts a society that is trying to
build up a more efficient, modern lifestyle.
Miss Emily is portrayed as a women who resents change and responds uncomfortably to any force
that tries to change her inhibitions. Her house is a portrait of her mindset with the leather covered
furniture being described as "cracked", and the pillow on which the townspeople found her dead
body was "yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight" (par.55). Instead of replacing the
furniture with newer polished one, she chooses to use her 'dark and dusty' home as shield from the
modern transformation of the town.
Miss Emily's refusal to change causes her several disagreements with the local government and law
enforcement. Her rejection to the multiple tax notices causes a burden with the newer generation as
they are unfamiliar with Miss Emily's way of law and conduct. This is privy to Miss Emily's
position as well, as she is unfamiliar with the current change in the local power as she is steadfast in
her reprisal of Colonel Sartoris's conduct, unknowledgable (or unwilling to accept) his death ten
years before. Some characters are sympathetic, and still respectful to her position in the town as
show with Judge Stevens. He concedes to the

Symbolism In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily
William Faulkner's classic short–story, A Rose for Emily, is a Gothic–Horror that discusses many of
the dark themes that characterized the Old South. Throughout the story, William Falkner uses the
main character of Emily Grierson to represent the death of the South after the Civil War. The most
significant theme in A Rose for Emily is death, which is symbolic of Emily's life and the life of the
Old South. After the defeat of the South in the Civil War, Emily's life is symbolically over as the
days of plantation life and Southern "chivalry" are all but over. This death is represented by
Faulkner's description of Emily's neighborhood, in which the narrator describes to us it was once an
upper–class neighborhood has fallen into disrepair as the mansions are being replaced with cotton
mills and industrial sheds. It is because of this sudden change that Emily becomes enamored with
death, which is first depicted as when she resists giving up her dead father's body for burial. Another
instance of symbolism in A Rose for Emily is in the title itself. A rose is most often depicted as a
symbol for love, in which case Homer Barron is the "rose" for Emily. In the story, the narrator
mentions that Emily's father thought no man was good enough for or their family name, and she was
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