A_Rose_for_Emily

A Rose for Emily Robertson 1 Nicole Robertson Elaine Walden English 102 10 September 2001 A life of increasing Dementia in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” A compelling story of a young woman’s life by William Faulkner in a “A Rose for Emily”. Miss Emily Grierson is referred to as the towns “fallen Monument” (557), she is a “monument” (557) because she is an example of southern pride for her manners, style and grace, but fallen because shows herself susceptible to death and decay. William Falkner uses setting, foreshadowing and characterization of Emily to trace Miss Emily’s increasing dementia. To begin, the setting of Emily’s increasing dementia will mirror the ante-bellum period and the gothic house. "A Rose for Emily"(557) tells the tale of a young woman who lives and abides by her father's strict rational. The descriptions of the decaying house coincide with Miss Emily's physical and emotional decay. Miss Emily's decaying house, not only lacks genuine love and care, but so douse she in her , emily, house, emily’s, miss, life, father, william, rose, death, setting, increasing, homer, example, dementia, 557, , young, upon, style, story, robertson, monument, mental, love, learned, herself, foreshadowing, faulkner, fallen, emily's, departure, decay, continue, character, because, although, 559, the, decaying, and, , yankee, work, woman’s, woman, white, well , way, walden english, victim