A Rose For Emily Literary Analysis
English 1000
4/22/2014
The Significance of Emily’s Rose Owner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a Noble Prize in literature, William Faulkner has many great poems, novels, short stories, and screen plays. Having a strong influence of a southern life style growing up in Mississippi, Faulkner portrays much of it through his writings. Having only read “A Rose for Emily” I have only seen very little of his southern influence. But in this short story it engulfs the whole story being set in the time period when slavery was still existent “A Rose for Emily” has be interpreted in so many different ways ever since it was released in 1930. Most focus on the issue of the time of the story and the meaning behind it, deciphering it as many ways as possibly. …show more content…
West’s break down of mathematical progression. The confederates are the ones who are stuck in mathematical progression, unlike the north who continue to grow with time. They are the old in the story, confusing their past with the present, keeping things traditional... Emily is very much a confederate, yet she is more lost in time than the others. Edwin writes “a mathematical progression precludes all diminishment. It conserves everything. In seven you have all that you had in six.”(Vartaney 191), this is a key point in his helping to understand this story. Having all you have in seven of what you also had in six, meaning you don’t ever let go of anything, compiling your past like a hoarder. Emily refuses to pay taxes until the day she dies, refuses to let Homer go. I feel she did this to feel somewhat sane to herself, considered insane to others but she lived in her own rooting world under the roof of her house so no one would ever consider her insanity until after her death. With Edwins break down of West’s summery, I understood more of why Emily had such a hard to letting go of her past. After losing her dad one of the only manly figures in her life she could not accept the loss of her own sweetheart, so taking drastic measures, she kept herself
4/22/2014
The Significance of Emily’s Rose Owner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a Noble Prize in literature, William Faulkner has many great poems, novels, short stories, and screen plays. Having a strong influence of a southern life style growing up in Mississippi, Faulkner portrays much of it through his writings. Having only read “A Rose for Emily” I have only seen very little of his southern influence. But in this short story it engulfs the whole story being set in the time period when slavery was still existent “A Rose for Emily” has be interpreted in so many different ways ever since it was released in 1930. Most focus on the issue of the time of the story and the meaning behind it, deciphering it as many ways as possibly. …show more content…
West’s break down of mathematical progression. The confederates are the ones who are stuck in mathematical progression, unlike the north who continue to grow with time. They are the old in the story, confusing their past with the present, keeping things traditional... Emily is very much a confederate, yet she is more lost in time than the others. Edwin writes “a mathematical progression precludes all diminishment. It conserves everything. In seven you have all that you had in six.”(Vartaney 191), this is a key point in his helping to understand this story. Having all you have in seven of what you also had in six, meaning you don’t ever let go of anything, compiling your past like a hoarder. Emily refuses to pay taxes until the day she dies, refuses to let Homer go. I feel she did this to feel somewhat sane to herself, considered insane to others but she lived in her own rooting world under the roof of her house so no one would ever consider her insanity until after her death. With Edwins break down of West’s summery, I understood more of why Emily had such a hard to letting go of her past. After losing her dad one of the only manly figures in her life she could not accept the loss of her own sweetheart, so taking drastic measures, she kept herself