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    In the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner‚ Emily is closed off and is lonely‚ but I believe that her loneliness due to how her father raised her and how that affected how she is unable to let go. I see how her father could have affected how Emily interacts with her Homer and her community and how the town interacts with her. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau‚ Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background

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    Being a southerner can be complex...for the past never dies. William Faulkner’s miserable short story “A Rose for Emily” displays the un-organization in which the plot follows‚ perhaps like the characters way of proceeding on with life. The author confuses his readers‚ in order to prove how the south is stuck in the past. He does this by manipulating the plot‚ which gives a perplex understanding on how the south cannot get over the outcome of the war that had already ended. Throughout his

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    first story we have learned in this American Literature course is A rose for Emily of William Faulkner. It is one of the most famous short stories in America‚ which reflected the life of Southern people in the early of 20th century and how they changed in order to adapt to new life. I have heard of this story long time before‚ but until this semester I started reading it in a serious way. From the beginning of A rose for Emily‚ I was so curious about Miss Emily’s life that I couldn’t stop reading

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    Emily Needs More Than a Rose William Faulkner could be considered one of the greatest American writers for Southern literature. He is an eccentric southern writer who is mostly known for writing short stories that include his eerie style and dark descriptions. William Faulkner is the son of Murray Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. Faulkner was born in Mississippi where most of his short stories take place. Faulkner wanted to join the U.S Army during World War I‚ but was denied because of his height

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    The stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson portray the same theme. The story "A Rose for Emily" is about a woman who was antisocial and her town found it strange. "The Lottery" was about a lottery that was held in a town that had a population of 300 people. The winner of the lottery would die in order for their God to give them a good year of crops. These stories show how people have their own thoughts that society finds unusual. Irony occurs a various

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    Literary Analysis In the poem‚ “A Rose for Emily” it describes the life of Emily. Emily’s dad passed away and she was left by herself. After her dad passes away‚ the townspeople showed up to her house demanding for their taxes. Emily told them she did not have to pay her taxes and demanded that they get out and never come back. Later on‚ the townspeople found this stench but are afraid to bring this to Emily’s attention. They soon complained to Judge Stevens and the townspeople went over in the middle

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    Foreshadowing is often used by an author to heighten the interest in the story. The author of "A Rose for Emily" foreshadows the discovery of Homer Barron’s body in a few different ways. The smell that develops around Emily’s house‚ and Homer never returning to Emily’s house are both foreshadowing what happens later in the story. When Emily went into the drug store saying "’ I want the best you have. I don’t care what kind’"‚(William Faulkner) and purchased rat poison‚ it immediately informed

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    The Correlation between Miss Emily and Her House Basing on the short story ``A Rose for Emily ’ by William Faulkner A Rose for Emily was William Faulkner ’s first short story published in a major magazine . It was on the April 30 ‚ 1930 ‚ in the issue of Forum magazine . In the centre of A Rose for Emily there is an eccentric old maid ‚ Emily Grierson . The whole story is related by an unnamed narrator ‚ who details the queer circumstances of Emily ’s life and her strange relationships with

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    die. William Faulkner’s short story "A Rose for Emily" shows how a whole town doesn’t use the law to help in the situation‚ which was the result of the death of Homer Barron. The argument will be that there was an affirmative duty and the townspeople failed to respond. The townspeople are the people in William Faulkner short story "A Rose for Emily". The short story is a timeline in which a criminal activity has taken place over the span of many years. Emily had gone to the store and decided to buy

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    2/1/15 Mrs. Brothers AP ELA 11 Associative Reader Response for “A Rose For Emily” It must be hard for a person to really love someone and only that person‚ and then that certain person dies. Miss Emily goes through a trial of changes throughout this short story. None of these changes had a positive effect on Miss Emily’s life‚ and her life just seemed to keep getting worse. I can connect to Miss Emily in some ways because I know how it feels to lose a loved one (my grandfather). I

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