Similarities Between 'Girl And A Rose For Emily'
Journa 1-Analyzing Fiction
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” and “A Rose for Emily,” written by William Faulkner are two short fictional stories. By reading these two pieces of literature, the speaker’s language seemed to me very confusing, because of symbols, rhythm, and words, which authors are using to reach the audience’s attention. In order to understand the significance and the value of the stories I had to read it more than once. My understanding of the stories in general is that they have completely different plot structure, but they both have the strong and deep meaning of how the characters interact. “Girl” is the short story about a relationship between the mother and her daughter. The mother is the main speaker of the story, and she is teaching the young girl how to adopt a life and live respectably. The mother is telling a girl how to run a household, how to handle other …show more content…
The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of the town felt about Emily: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral: the men thought a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant-a combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least ten years” (Kincaid, 1984). Significance of the story based on love. Her father was very controlling man, who thought that “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily” (Kincaid, 1984). After her father died she kept him the house and told everybody that her father is not dead. From my point of view this way Miss Emily shows a lot of respect and love for the father. Emily wants to be love again, that’s why when she felt in love with Hommer Barron she killed him, because he did not want to get married and was trying to leave
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” and “A Rose for Emily,” written by William Faulkner are two short fictional stories. By reading these two pieces of literature, the speaker’s language seemed to me very confusing, because of symbols, rhythm, and words, which authors are using to reach the audience’s attention. In order to understand the significance and the value of the stories I had to read it more than once. My understanding of the stories in general is that they have completely different plot structure, but they both have the strong and deep meaning of how the characters interact. “Girl” is the short story about a relationship between the mother and her daughter. The mother is the main speaker of the story, and she is teaching the young girl how to adopt a life and live respectably. The mother is telling a girl how to run a household, how to handle other …show more content…
The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of the town felt about Emily: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral: the men thought a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant-a combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least ten years” (Kincaid, 1984). Significance of the story based on love. Her father was very controlling man, who thought that “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily” (Kincaid, 1984). After her father died she kept him the house and told everybody that her father is not dead. From my point of view this way Miss Emily shows a lot of respect and love for the father. Emily wants to be love again, that’s why when she felt in love with Hommer Barron she killed him, because he did not want to get married and was trying to leave