A Rose For Emily

By: Rasha Qandeel

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.

Of The Story: Features1 .Introduction.

4 .Characters

.5.Theme.6.Setting.7.Conflict.

2.Summary3 .Plot Summary

8.Symbols9.Point of view

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

SummaryThis 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 .

PLOT SUMMARY

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.

Characters: Emily Grierson

 

Homer Barron 

Mr. Grierso

n Judge Steve

ns TobeColon

el Sartor

is 

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.

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 .

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.

Themes: In the story extremes of :

(Isolation( lonelinessIsolation 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

In this story we feel pity about what happen with

Emily when her past and her present destroyed her life .

Compassion and forgiveness:

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 .

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.

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.

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 .

Point of view : first

person narrator he attend the funeral and

used the pronouns ( she, he ,

they)