The House
Miss Emily's house is an important symbol in this story. (In general, old family homes are often significant symbols in Gothic literature.) For most...A creepy old house in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, 1861-1933 (approximately)
Setting is usually pretty rich in Faulkner. SimCity-style,...First Person (Peripheral Narrator)
The fascinating narrator of "A Rose for Emily" is more rightly called "first people" than "first person." Usually referring...Horror or Gothic Fiction, Southern Gothic, Literary Fiction, Tragedy, Modernism
Even before we see the forty-year-old corpse of Homer Barron rotting into the b...Ironic, Confessional, Gossipy, Angry, Hopeful
We can think of a bunch more adjectives to describe the tone of the story, these seems to be the dominant emotion...Lush
While Ernest Hemingway boils things down to the essentials, his friend William Faulkner lets the pot boil over, spilling onto the stove, down onto the flo...You probably noticed that there is no rose in the story, though we do find the word "rose" four times. Check out the first two times the word is used:
When the Negro opened the blinds of...
It's funny that a story as out of sequence as "A Rose for Emily" ends at the end – with the discovery of the forty-year-old corpse of Homer Barron. Readers and critics often feel that if the...
Initial Situation
Death and Taxes
As we discuss in "Symbols, Imagery, Allegory," Faulkner might be playing on the Be...
Anticipation Stage
Meeting Homer Barron
Although she doesn't quite fit the profile a Booker tragic hero, Miss Emily...
Act I
The curtains open on the huge funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, which is taking place on the grounds of a decrepit southern house. The fact that nobody in...- William Faulkner is a character in David Cronenburg's Naked Lunch. (
PG-13
We want to go with PG-13 on this one, because there is no sex mentioned. However, readers and critics take it all the way to necrophilia, though, in which case you'd have...
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