Chronological Order In A Rose For Emily

Analysis of Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily
In “A Rose for Emily," written by William Faulkner’s. The narrator of this story has chosen to tell us it out of chronological order. As you start this story you get the feeling that you can relate it to a move. They start us off with an action scene first to grab your attention. Then it moves to taking us back to how it all began working its way back to the main point that had grabbed you attention in the first place. “A Rose for Emily” is broken in to five different stages. If the narrator had written this story in a different order, then we would have had a whole different meaning behind it. As we glance at the entail plot of the story, the time and the chronological shifts, a few of our charters,
As the town couldn’t forget that Emily’s aunt “had gone completely crazy at last, believe that he Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they were.”(302) Emily’s father had driven off the many suitors for her as he thought none of them were good enough to be with her. The town’s people had felt sorry for her. Did Emily go crazy? As Emily had denied that her father had passed away she would not give up his body for a total of three days. The town folk all believed that she had gone crazy after that as they went to give her their condolences for her father passing. “In the summer after her father’s death” (302) sidewalk contractor began to redo them. Emily had ended up meeting the foreman Homer Barron. People in the town never thought Mr. Barron was good enough for Emily and they felt she was letting her name down. They had “began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in a yellow-wheeled buggy.”(302) Emily had made the decision that she need to purchase arsenic as she realizes her reputation was getting further compromised. As the town realized that Emily had purchased arsenic they started to get afraid of what she would
We see Emily’s life through multiple series of flashbacks. Emily was introduced to us by her funeral and then taking us back to her past. Approaching the end we realized the even Emily’s funeral is a flashback. Leading us to the undoing of the upstairs bedroom. Emily is portrayed to us as a little girl, to her father chasing off suitor, to an old woman, and to her death at the age of seventy four. This has given us the feeling of the past and present coexisting as to how they have influenced each other. All of this goes to show that Emily was always committed regardless of the