Post on 12-Jul-2015
A report on a short story:
A Rose for Emilywritten by
William Faulkner
Prepared by: Marc Vener C. Del Carmen
Presentation Outline:
Context
William Faulkner
Image 1: Young William Faulkner
Image 1: Young William Faulkner
Image 2: Old William Faulkner
Image 2: Old William Faulkner
A Rose For Emily
Image 3: “A Rose for Emily” Cover 1
Image 3: “A Rose for Emily” Cover 1
Image 4: “A Rose for Emily” Cover 2
Image 4: “A Rose for Emily” Cover 2
Post-Civil War/ Reconstruction Period
Post-Civil War/ Reconstruction Period
Image 5: Reconstruction Period 1
Post-Civil War/ Reconstruction Period
Image 6: Reconstruction Period 2
Post-Civil War/ Reconstruction Period
Image 7: Reconstruction Period 3
Story and Analysis
Title
Title About the Title
Image 8: “A Rose to Emily”
Structure
Structure
StructureTime
Image 9: Emily on Window
StructureTime
Image 9: Emily on Window
StructureTemporal Shifts
Image 10: Emily on Mirror
StructureTemporal Shifts
Image 10: Emily on Mirror
Setting
Setting
Image 11: New Albany, Mississippi
Characters
Characters
Main/Dynamic Character
Image 12: Emily Grierson
Characters Static Characters
Image 13: Homer Barron
Image 14: Tobe
CharactersOther Static Characters
Plot Overview & Summary
Plot Overview & Summary
Plot Overview
Image 15: Plot Overview
Plot OverviewSection One
Plot OverviewSection Two
Plot OverviewSection Three
Plot OverviewSection Four
Plot OverviewSection Five
Summary
Image 16: “A Rose for Emily” Cover 3
SummaryTime
(Emily’s Age)
NarrativOrder
(Section, Paragraph)
Event
30II. 26,
27
• When Emily was 30, Emily’s father died (26)
• Emily refused to accept her father’s death. When the town people forced to bury her father, she broke down. (27)
30~32 III. 30
• Emily was sick for a long time.• In the summer after the Emily’s father, the
town had a contract for paving the sidewalks. (30)
Image 17: Emily and Father
SummaryTime
(Emily’s Age)
NarrativOrder
(Section, Paragraph)
Event
32III. 30,
33
• Emily acquainted with a day worker, Homer Barron (a Yankee—a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face). (30)
• The town ladies started to gossip about the love affair. “Poor Emily.” (33)
32III. 34 -
40• Emily bought rat poison.
32 IV. 43• The town people thought Emily would kill
herself.
Image 18: Arsenic
SummaryTime
(Emily’s Age)
NarrativOrder
(Section, Paragraph)
Event
32III. 34 -
40
• Town people disagreed and gossiped.• ”She will persuade him yet”, because
Homer Barron had remarked—he’s not a marrying man (IV. Paragraph 43).
• Some town ladies interfered, and for the Baptist minister to called upon her.
• The next Sunday, Emily and Homer again drove about the street. The following day, the minister’s wife wrote to Emily’s relations in Alabama. (IV. 44)
Image 13: Homer Barron
SummaryTime
(Emily’s Age)
Narrative Order
(Section, Paragraph)
Event
32 IV. 45
• Emily went to the jeweler’s and order a man’s toilet set in silver, with the letter H.B. on each piece. She also bought a complete outfit of men’s clothing, including a nightshirt. The town people believed that “They are married.”
32IV. 46,
47
• The town people were surprised that Homer Barron had gone. (46)• ”Within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the
Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening”. (46)• "And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for
some time." (47)
SummaryTime
(Emily’s Age)
NarrativOrder
(Section, Paragraph)
Event
32II. 15 -
24
• Emily’s sweetheart “the one we believed would marry her had deserted her.” (15)
• The smell developed. After Emily’s neighbor’s complaint, Judge Stevens (80 years old) investigated the source of the smell without result. (15-24)
40I. 2
IV. 49
• She give china painting lessons to the ladies (daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris’s contemporaries) for 6-7 years. (IV. 49)
• In 1894, Colonel Sartoris remitted the taxes of Miss Emily Grierson. (I. 2)
Image 19: Grierson’s House 1
SummaryTime
(Emily’s Age)
Narrative Order
(Section, Paragraph)
Event
52 II. 14 • Colonel Sartoris died—Emily was 52.
52~54 I. 5• Emily was about 52~54. Emily stopped given
china painting lesson to the town ladies—Since that time, nobody visited the Grierson house.
52~54 IV. 50
• The second generation became the backbone of the town. They stopped sending girls to Miss Emily’s painting class.
• “When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.”
Image 20: Grierson’s House 2
SummaryTime
(Emily’s Age)
NarrativOrder
(Section, Paragraph)
Event
62 I. 4-14
• Emily was 62 (“a small, fat woman in black, . . . . She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.”)
• The town aldermen asked Emily Grierson to pay taxes, but she refused. (I. 4-14)
74IV. 48,
53
• Emily died at the age of 74. (48)• “She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in
a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldlywith age and lack of sunlight.” (53)
Image 10: Emily on Mirror
SummaryTime
(Emily’s Age)
Narrative Order
(Section, Paragraph)
Event
74I. 1-2V. 55
• The town people went to Miss Emily Grierson’s funeral. (1-2) • Miss Emily was put “beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the
crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier. . . .” (55)• Two female cousins came to the funeral. (55)
74 V. 56-60
• After the funeral, the town people intruded into Emily’s bedroom, which no one had seen in forty years.
• Emily’s room was furnished as for a bridal, with the curtain of rose color. And they found a man’s body lay in the bed, with a long strand of iron-gray hair.
Summary
Image 21: Emily and Dead Homer
Theme
Themes
Image 22: Tradition vs Change
Themes
Image 23: Living in the Past
Themes
Image 23: Living in the Past
Themes
Image 24: Death of Old South
Themes
Image 24: Death of Old South
Themes
Image 22: Tradition vs Change
Themes
Image 22: Tradition vs Change
Point of View
Point of View
Image 25: Townsmen
Point of View
Image 25: Townsmen
Point of View
Image 26: Rose
Point of View
Image 26: Rose
Point of View
Image 27: Emily’s Actions
Point of View
Image 27: Emily’s Actions
Symbols
Symbols
Image 12: Emily Grierson
Symbols
Image 19: Grierson’s House 1
Symbols
Image 13: Homer Barron
Symbols
Image 14: Tobe
Symbols
Image 7: Reconstruction Period 3
Resolution
Resolution
Image 28: Hands
Resolution
Image 28: Hands
Southern Gothic
Literature
Southern Gothic
LiteratureImage 29: Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic Literature
Image 29: Southern Gothic
Gothic Style
Image 30: Example of Gothic Literature
Gothic Style
Image 30: Example of Gothic Literature
Southern Gothic Literature
Image 31: Southern Gothic 2
Southern Gothic Literature
Image 31: Southern Gothic 2
Southern Gothic – William Faulkner – “A Rose to
Emily”
Southern Gothic – William Faulkner – “A Rose to
Emily”
Southern Gothic – William Faulkner – “A Rose to
Emily”
End
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