A_Rose_For_Emily

A Rose For Emily “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is a remarkable story of a Miss Emily Grierson, who at the beginning of the story is deceased and her funeral drew the attention of the entire population of a small southern town named Jefferson. An unnamed narrator suggests that the narration were done in the 3rd Person Omniscient. This narrator, who somewhat is considered to be “the town” or at least the collaborative voice of it, aligns key moments in Emily’s life, including the death of her father and her brief and weird relationship with Homer Barron, a man from the north. The story basically addresses the symbolic changes in the South after the civil war, the transition from Old South to New South. The Grierson House symbolizes neglect and the new changes in the town of Jefferson. Beginning with Emily’s funeral, throughout the story Faulkner foreshadows the ending and suspenseful events in Emily’s life, and Emily’s other awaiting circumstances. This story tells the tale of Emily, a young woman who lives and abides by her father’s strict rationale. The rampant symbolism and Faulkner’s descriptions of the decaying house, coincide with Miss Emily’s physical and emotional decay, and rose, emily’s, story, miss, pride, emily, faulkner, through, seclusion, life, feelings, father, town, south, house, homer, faulkner’s, barron, actions, words, sweetheart, relationship, recluse, out, new, narrator, murder, madness, love, lives, jefferson, intentions, homicidal, grierson, go, funeral