The Town In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily
Gossiping is done by everyone even children. In William Faulkner’s “ A rose for Emily” he uses “the town” in a gossiping narrative format to let the reader know how the town operates, so by having everyone talk about Emily it helps the reader best know her. “The town” talks about Emily throughout the story letting the reader know how she feels about herself and everyone else, and how she acts toward them.
William Faulkner uses gossiping by everyone in the town; they talk about Emily everytime a character is added they are talking about Emily. A member of the town will usually have an encounter with Emily, and that moment would have some way to deal with Emily to help the reader understand her better. “She carried her head high enough—even when …show more content…
“ But are presented in such a way that when we reconstruct the timeline, we can easily predict for ourselves what seems to have surprised the “we” narrator”(Melczarek 238) if the reader was not influenced by the gossip you can put all the pieces together, and there is no suspense to the story.“ So the next day we all said, “ she will kill herself;” and we said it would be the best thing” (Faulkner 228) the narrator's gossip throws the reader off and makes you think she is going to kill herself, but she actually kills Homer. The narrator telling the story in the gossip format changes the flow of the story, because when she goes to the store and buys the rat poison they make us believe she is going to kill herself, but that was just what the narrator wanted to do to add suspense.
Although there are many directions Faulkner could have went with the narrations the gossip format really set the story off excentelly, because it really makes you have to think and adds suspense to the story. Faulkner characterization of Emily through everyone talking about her makes it down to earth, because everyone has gossiped before and can relate to what is going on. The narration adds up to be one of the best parts of the story, because it influences so much of it and really gets you into it. If gossiping was not added “A Rose for Emily” would have a whole different feeling to
William Faulkner uses gossiping by everyone in the town; they talk about Emily everytime a character is added they are talking about Emily. A member of the town will usually have an encounter with Emily, and that moment would have some way to deal with Emily to help the reader understand her better. “She carried her head high enough—even when …show more content…
“ But are presented in such a way that when we reconstruct the timeline, we can easily predict for ourselves what seems to have surprised the “we” narrator”(Melczarek 238) if the reader was not influenced by the gossip you can put all the pieces together, and there is no suspense to the story.“ So the next day we all said, “ she will kill herself;” and we said it would be the best thing” (Faulkner 228) the narrator's gossip throws the reader off and makes you think she is going to kill herself, but she actually kills Homer. The narrator telling the story in the gossip format changes the flow of the story, because when she goes to the store and buys the rat poison they make us believe she is going to kill herself, but that was just what the narrator wanted to do to add suspense.
Although there are many directions Faulkner could have went with the narrations the gossip format really set the story off excentelly, because it really makes you have to think and adds suspense to the story. Faulkner characterization of Emily through everyone talking about her makes it down to earth, because everyone has gossiped before and can relate to what is going on. The narration adds up to be one of the best parts of the story, because it influences so much of it and really gets you into it. If gossiping was not added “A Rose for Emily” would have a whole different feeling to