Analysis Of William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily
In William Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily”, the character Emily teaches the reader that time is precious in the mysterious old house during the 18th and 19th century. The author starts the story off with the main characters, Emily’s funeral. Then the author goes in dept about Emily’s life. By reading this story you would come to an conclusion that the theme would be life is short and be cautious who your friends with. This is not just any regular story about a girl, it has layers. Wanting something so bad in life will you kill for it.
In life Emily was never married and she never got the chance to get married. She had to take care of her father, he didn’t accept any of the candidate. In the process of it all Emily grew old and husbandless. The fact that she didn’t have anybody in her life that loved her as much as her father did it had to be ruff. In the story the author says, “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, as people will” (Faulkner, Section 2). This incident means that she could of and should of been happy, but her father in a way prevented that from happening. The saying goes, “Life is to short to be wasted”! …show more content…
Her desires could of got so bad that she flipped out. When she got ill her actions went from somewhat normal to unusual. everything was normal. In the story the author says, “Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye to eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (Faulkner, Section 3). By her buying unauthorized poison people in the community would wonder what she would do with it. Here the author is showing that Emily’s actions in her life started to speak louder than her
In life Emily was never married and she never got the chance to get married. She had to take care of her father, he didn’t accept any of the candidate. In the process of it all Emily grew old and husbandless. The fact that she didn’t have anybody in her life that loved her as much as her father did it had to be ruff. In the story the author says, “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, as people will” (Faulkner, Section 2). This incident means that she could of and should of been happy, but her father in a way prevented that from happening. The saying goes, “Life is to short to be wasted”! …show more content…
Her desires could of got so bad that she flipped out. When she got ill her actions went from somewhat normal to unusual. everything was normal. In the story the author says, “Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye to eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (Faulkner, Section 3). By her buying unauthorized poison people in the community would wonder what she would do with it. Here the author is showing that Emily’s actions in her life started to speak louder than her