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A Rose For Emily

A Rose For Emily. By: Rasha Qandeel. About The Writer :.

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A Rose For Emily

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  1. A Rose For Emily • By: Rasha Qandeel

  2. About The Writer : William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, in 1897. One of the twentieth century’s greatest writers, Faulkner earned his fame from a series of novels that explore the South’s historical legacy, its fraught and often tensely violent present, and its uncertain future. This grouping of major works includes The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1931), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936), all of which are rooted in Faulkner’s fictional Mississippi county, Yoknapatawpha.

  3. Of The Story: Features 1. Introduction. 2.Summary 3. Plot Summary 4. Characters. 5.Theme. 6.Setting. 7.Conflict. 8.Symbols 9.Point of view

  4. A Rose for Emily” was the first short story that Faulkner published in a major magazine. It appeared in the April 30, 1930, issue of Forum. Despite the earlier publication of several novels, when Faulkner published this story he was still struggling to make a name for himself in the United States

  5. Summary This story take place in Jefferson. It is divided in 5 sections .The story take about Emily who face a great problem in death her father who was the leader in the city. All people tried to help her to accept died her father. She was suffered and she did not accept to bury her father and after three days they to persuasion her to bury him. Her life was full of silent and she did not accept to talk with people in the city and she did not care for herself just she lived in her imagination.

  6. Plot summary

  7. In this story the reader has 5 sections and the narrator who attended the funeral of Emily in her home which was stranger and no one entered it for many years. All neighbors for many years of his father death. She had relation with person who was called Homer and all people was expected that she have to marry him. She still signal by time she turns thirty. At the end when she bought the poison , people was thinking she will kill herself but the fact she will kill her love (Homer). She thought by killing him she can save her love because she realized he did not like to marry her.

  8. Characters: Emily Grierson Mr. Grierson Homer Barron Judge Stevens Colonel Sartoris Tobe

  9. Emily: The personality of Emily was sadness and did not accept the changes in life in her city especially when her father died . Also, her friend (Homer) who did not accept to marry her and she felt sad by this but she decided to kill him and sleep with his died body in her bed to save her love as she thought and she put his clothes in the toilet. She used a strong poison to kill him. All of this happens show she did not accept the real.

  10. Homer : A foreman from the North who is a large man with dark complexion , booming , vice , and light colored eyes . A gruff and demanding boss , he wins many admirers in Jefferson because of his gregarious nature and good sense of homer . He develops an interest in Emily and takes her for Sunday drives in a yellow wheeled buggy .

  11. Despite his attributes, the townspeople view him as poor, if not scandalous , choice for mate . He disappears in Emily house and decomposes in an attic bedroom after she kills him .

  12. Themes: In the story extremes of :(Isolation( loneliness Isolation by physical and emotional , in this story Stand against isolation and loneliness and against people who they spends their life on isolation and without sharing another people. Versions of reality : how difficult it can be to see the past and the present clearly and honestly

  13. Compassion and forgiveness : In this story we feel pity about what happen with Emily when her past and her present destroyed her life . Love : important thing in our life and we can not accept the losing of any one we love it, and may lead us to full in mistakes .

  14. Conflict : The internal conflict : in Miss Emily ‘s mind . A bout her ideas in her mind after the death of her father. The external conflict : between Homer and Emily ambiguity about what homer may have felt resolution to the problem their marriage may pose.

  15. Setting : In a creepy old house in Jefferson in Ms. Emily’s home , it was cold , un clear , and full of dust . This house was scary and no one go to visit Emily because she refused anyone visit her so she was loneliness and a symbol of isolation .

  16. Symbols: The Rose : symbolizes dreams of romances and lovers . The house: is very important the story ( in general , old family homes are often significant symbols in Gothic literature) Death : is a symbol in the story of sadness , Emily life is defined by death , symbolically , like the old south. The old hair on the pillow : signifies that Emily is anachronism in the town now lying with corpses as all that she has had to be of is also dead. The fallen moment who left a part of her behind in the grey hair .

  17. Point of view : first person narrator he attend the funeral and used the pronouns ( she, he , they)

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