Literature

William Faulkner 's A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner 's A Rose for Emily , is set in a small town , and is told from the point-of-view of an anonymous member of the community Emily Grierson , the subject of the short story , is brought up by her domineering father , who belonged to a wealthy clan . Emily , as is narrated by the anonymous community member , is zealously guarded over by her father , who turns away every single suitor of Miss Emily , as indicated in the lines , of the young men were quite good enough

br for Miss Emily and such (Faulkner ) Thus , Miss Emily grows old and single , and is still solitary when she finally dies . This is symbolized by a lone strand of gray hair on a pillow at the end of the story

The story has its own rhythm , the events and elements jibe together . I was a little disconcerted at first with the apparent disly retelling of the events , but as I read on , I got into the rhythm of the story . The retelling had a rhythm of its own , its own logic regarding the interconnection of the events , and these build up the to the unnerving conclusion , a lot like a snowball gathering dirt and snow as it rolls down a hill

I was repulsed by Miss Emily 's secret , that of sleeping with (literally and figuratively , I am too horrified to think of the possibility ) a rotting corpse of a dead man . I first thought of her as a monster especially when juxtaposed with her other acts : of buying arsenic , which in hindsight is actually for Homer Baron of keeping her father 's corpse in the house , and refusing to let it go . She seemed so grotesque , so inhuman , especially with her physical

Her skeleton was small and spare perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her . She looked bloated like a body long submerged in motionless water , and of that pallid hue Her eyes , lost in the fatty ridges of her face , looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another (Faulkner

Yet , somewhere in that loathing , I realized something : monsters are not born they are made . Frankenstein 's monster , Mr . Hyde , these are fictional monsters concocted by imaginative . These monsters within the stories , are made by their creators . And I said to myself Could Miss Emily be any different ' She may be more human in form than others , but her behavior may be just as monstrous . Yet , no monster wanted to be a monster . Frankenstein 's monster sought a way to transcend his grotesque form . Dr . Jekyll sought to control Mr . Hyde

Miss Emily , I feel , was molded by her father . When her father was gone his task was taken over by her community . The community meddled with her affairs , as indicated in the following passages , as when they kept gossiping about her...