BY
YANY MONTENEGRO
HUGO ALAS
HUGO DUARTE
A ROSE FOR EMILY
CHARACTERS
EMILY DIRECT CHARACTER
EMILY’S FATHER INDIRECT CHARACTER
HORMER BARRON INDIRECT CHARACTER
JUEZ STEVEN INDIRECT CHARACTER
TOBE DIRECT CHARACTER
SETTING
 THIS STORYTAKES PLACE IN A
CREEPY OLD HOUSE IN
JEFFERSON YOKNAPATAWPHA
COUNTY, MISSISSIPI .
PLOT
 EXTERNAL PLOT:
IT OCCCURED BETWEEN EMILY
ANDTHETOWN; EMILY
REFUSEDTO PAYTAXES.
INTERNAL PLOT
IT ISWHEN EMILY
ISOLATED HERSELF
BECAUSE OFTHE OVER
PROTECTION HER FATHER
GAVE HER.
EXPOSITION
 AS IT IS KNOWN EMILY GRIERSON
WASTHE MAIN CHARACTER OFTHE
STORY. SHEWAS AWOMANWHO
SUFFERED A LOT BECAUSE HER
FATHER DID NOT LET HER GO OUT
TO MAKE FRIENDS AND HAVE A
OSCIAL LIFE.
RISING ACTION
 A PERSON FROMTHETOWN
WENTTOTHE AUTHORITIESTO
ASKTHEM FOR A REVISION IN
EMILY’S HOUSE BECAUSE
THEREWAS A STRONG SMELL
COMING OUT OFTHE HOUSE.
CLIMAX
 AFTER EMILY’S DEATH; PEOPLE
WERE ALLOWEDTO ENTERTO
THE HOUSETHAT HAD BEEN
CLOSED FORYEARS. ALSO,
THEY FOUND OUTTHAT EMILY
WAS INSANE.
FALLING ACTION
 PEOPLE OFTHETOEN
REALIZEDTHAT EMILY’S
INSANITYWASWORSETHAN
THEYTHOUGHT.
RESOLUTION
 PEOPLE OFTHETOWN
REALIZEDTHATTHE SMELL
THEY SMELLED WAS HORMER’S
ROTTING CORPSE.
POINT OF VIEW
 THE STORY IS IN FIRST PERSON PLURAL
BECAUSETHE NARRATOR IS NOTTHE ONLY
PERSONTHAT IS INVOLVED INWHATWAS
HAPPENING INTHATTOWN BUT ALSOALL
PEOPLE OFTHE PLACE.
THEMES
 ISOLATION
 PAST
 CURIOSITY
 FIDELITY

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