Feminist Inequality In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily
The patriarchal dominance is an analogy to global warming; despite our great achievements in environmental aspects, we are still struggling to deal with our social gender inequality. The debate on feminist ideology does not begin in this modern society; instead it has been discussed for many years. Authentically William Faulkner, corroborate the idea of the feminist ideologies that has taken place in his lifetime, by creating vivid, concrete visual imagery of Ms. Emily Grierson, the main character in the fictional short story “A Rose for Emily”. Certainly, because of the horrific actions, and crimes she has performed, Ms. Emily character can be analytically into multiple ways of women actions towards society. Among the numerous variables Faulkner
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Emily as a woman does not accept changes in her life. When people lose someone close to them, they feel horrible; their heart breaks into pieces and their crushed sorrow takes time to heal. Compared to men, women see as a major part of this ideology because, for many centuries, women discern as a sensitive person. In the perspective of Miss Emily’s losing someone has begun with her mother, who died when Ms. Emily was young. After that, the only person she has left is her father; as he is an upper-class family, he raised her with respect and appearance beyond the town people. He was seeing her more than anything; even none of the young men in the town have enough quality to marry her. Apparently, after Mr. Grierson death, Miss Emily experiences the loss in her life and refused the changes by pretending nothing has happened. “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face” Falkner 2. Accordingly, Her controvert briefly explains how she is afraid to hurt her feelings and surrender for changes affect her lifestyle. Furthermore, in order to prevent the changes that are occurring in her life, she denies installing a mailbox. “When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers” Falkner 4. This endorses, her poor condition that leads her to be lonely and not confident (scared revealing her secret crime of Homer), which is cause her social
Emily as a woman does not accept changes in her life. When people lose someone close to them, they feel horrible; their heart breaks into pieces and their crushed sorrow takes time to heal. Compared to men, women see as a major part of this ideology because, for many centuries, women discern as a sensitive person. In the perspective of Miss Emily’s losing someone has begun with her mother, who died when Ms. Emily was young. After that, the only person she has left is her father; as he is an upper-class family, he raised her with respect and appearance beyond the town people. He was seeing her more than anything; even none of the young men in the town have enough quality to marry her. Apparently, after Mr. Grierson death, Miss Emily experiences the loss in her life and refused the changes by pretending nothing has happened. “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face” Falkner 2. Accordingly, Her controvert briefly explains how she is afraid to hurt her feelings and surrender for changes affect her lifestyle. Furthermore, in order to prevent the changes that are occurring in her life, she denies installing a mailbox. “When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers” Falkner 4. This endorses, her poor condition that leads her to be lonely and not confident (scared revealing her secret crime of Homer), which is cause her social